Fundamentals of Plastic Materials Processing
Credits: 3
Course Number: 10-623-171
Course Description
10-623-171 FUNDAMENTALS OF PLASTIC MATERIALS PROCESSING ...polymer materials and properties, material testing, product design and evaluation, processing methods, machine setup and operation. Course requirements include a trip to UW-Stout for lab work. (Prerequisite: 10-623-170, Engineering Materials-Intro)
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What will I learn?
- Follow all safety precautions and practices.
- Examine polymers at a molecular level along with use of standard terminology, how they relate to physical properties and the processing parameters for manufacturing.
- Determine selected physical and mechanical properties of polymeric materials and use variety of testing equipment.
- Use Rheology of Polymer Melts and applications.
- Use Mixing processes and devices.
- Use Injection Molding processes and techniques.
- Use Extrusion processes and techniques.
- Use Secondary Shaping processes and techniques.
- Use other important polymer processes and techniques.
- Apply methodologies of design for manufacturability to polymer processing areas.
- Apply basic design concepts necessary in the development of tooling for polymer processing.
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