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Course Catalog 00/01


Materials and Manufacturing Eng

MPP001 Non Metallic Materials 6.0 ECTS credits

TIMEPERIOD:
Q I

LANGUAGE:Swedish

EXAMINER
Lennart Wallström Univ lekt


PREREQUISITES
Basic physics

COURSE AIM
To provide basic knowledge on structure, processing and use of polymeric and ceramic engineering materials.

CONTENTS
Polymers (70% of the course):
Polymer structure
Glass transition temperature
Crystallinity
Rubbers
Thermosets
Viscoelasticity, phenomena, molecular mechanisms and theory
Materials selection and design
Processing methods

Ceramics (30% of the course):
Properties and applications
Strengh, Weibull distribution, time dependant properties
Structure of ceramics, glass, processing part 1
Processing part 2

TEACHING
Lectures, class room seminars, demonstrations

EXAMINATION
Written examination.
COURSE GRADE SCALE:

ITEMS/CREDITS

Laboratory work 0.30ECTS
Written exam 5.70ECTS

COURSE LITERATURE
W.D. Callister; Material Science and Engineering, 3rd ed. John Wiley & Sons, 1994.
Berglund, Lars; Polymer Science and Engineering, 1997. Compendium.


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