Course Details

Polymer Materials

Academic Year 2025/26

NJA030 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-SIM Winter Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

prof. Ing. Rostislav Drochytka, CSc., MBA, dr. h. c.

Institute

Institute of Technology of Building Materials and Components

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/295860

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Outline of plastics produced in our country and in abroad, classification.
  • 2. Production of plastics. New plastics with maximum service life.
  • 3. Properties of plastics.
  • 4. Cellulose, polyethylene.
  • 5. Polypropylene, PIB and polytetrafluorethylene- Teflon.
  • 6. PVC, production, properties, utilization. PC and C.
  • 7. Polyamides, polystyrene.
  • 8. Epoxy resins.
  • 9. Polyesters.
  • 10. Polyurethans.
  • 11. Acrylated polymeres – polyacrylates.
  • 12. Other used polymers (furan resins, phenoplasts, aminoplasts etc.)
  • 13. Silicones. Possibilities of plastics utilization (into cement mortars and concrete, paints, glues etc.), liquidation of polymers.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Introductory lesson, work safety, laboratory regulations.
  • 2. Determination of water vapour diffusion properties of thin layers polymer sheets and coatings.
  • 3. Determination of CO2 diffusion properties of polymer coatings.
  • 4. Preparation of PVC plastisols, adhesion and strength test, influence of different composition and gel temperatures.
  • 5. Theory of identification and identification of polymers in fire, dissolution test, pyrolitic test.
  • 6. Infrared spectroscopy-identification of plastic materials.
  • 7. Preparation and determination of properties of polymer concrete and polymer mortar.
  • 8. Preparation of phenol formaldehyde and urea-formaldehyde resins.
  • 9. Preparation of polymer mortars and determination of their properties.
  • 10. Preparation of polymer screeds, application, testing. Preparation of polymer concrete and porous polymer concrete.
  • 11. Determination of chemical resistance of plastic materials in various aggressive environments, applications. Analysis in the evaluation of the material exposed in the specific context.
  • 12. Excursions (e.g. Fatra Napajedla, Barum, or Rimtech etc.).
  • 13. Credit test, inspection protocols, granting the credit.