Course Details
Polymer Materials
Academic Year 2024/25
NJA030 course is part of 1 study plan
NPC-SIM Winter Semester 1st year
The tuition renders a complex survey about plastics produce at home and abroad, briefly discusses the production of these materials and especially the properties and the utilization in building work. The stress is laid to new plastics with maximal length of service life. Coursse describes cellulose, polyethylene, polypropylene, polyesters, polytetrafluorethylen, PVC, polyamide, polystyrene and epoxy resins, polyesters, polyurethane, modern acrylic polymers, polyacrilate and silicones as well.
The description of different types of polymer includes typical products of each polymer and reasons for selection of particular polymer for certain product.
The course makes the student acquainted with the possibility of polymers added into cement mortars and concrete, but the main stress is laid to the rehabilitation of building structures, which is at the time being a very actual problem in building industry.
The lessons are supplemented by laboratory assignments.
The description of different types of polymer includes typical products of each polymer and reasons for selection of particular polymer for certain product.
The course makes the student acquainted with the possibility of polymers added into cement mortars and concrete, but the main stress is laid to the rehabilitation of building structures, which is at the time being a very actual problem in building industry.
The lessons are supplemented by laboratory assignments.
Credits
5 credits
Language of instruction
Czech
Semester
winter
Course Guarantor
Institute
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Entry Knowledge
Course Polymer Materials is not related directly to previous courses, but the student who sign up the course should be able to explain the elementary concepts of chemistry, materials testing and basic principles of composites.
Aims
The aim of teaching is to present a complex survey of plastics produced in our country and abroad. Accent is laid on new plastics with maximal time of life. The subject informs about the possibility of plastics added into cement mortars and concrete – main accent is laid on rehabilitation of concrete structures.
The student would manage the goal of the subject by acquiring a complex overview of plastic substances produced in the CR and abroad, on new plastic materials with maximum endurance, on possibilities of plastic substances added to the cement mortars and concretes with focus on sanitation of concrete structures.
The student would manage the goal of the subject by acquiring a complex overview of plastic substances produced in the CR and abroad, on new plastic materials with maximum endurance, on possibilities of plastic substances added to the cement mortars and concretes with focus on sanitation of concrete structures.
Basic Literature
Drochytka, R.: Plastické látky ve stavebnictví. 1. vydání. Brno: Akademické nakladatelství CERM, 1998, 122 stran, ISBN 80-214-1148-1, Skriptum VUT FAST Brno. (cs)
DROCHYTKA, R. Plastické látky. 161 str., 2008. Elektronické studijní opory FAST VUT. (cs)
DROCHYTKA, R. Plastické látky. 161 str., 2008. Elektronické studijní opory FAST VUT. (cs)
Recommended Reading
COUZENS, E. G., a YARSLEY, V. E. Plastics in the Modern Word. 1.ed. Harmonworth, 1968. (en)
MLEZIVA, J., ŠŇUPÁREK, J. Polymery - výroba, struktura, vlastnosti a použití. Sobotáles, ISBN: 80-901570-4-1. 1993. (cs)
AKOVALI, G. Polymers in Construction. Smithers Rapra Press, ISBN 978-1859574683. 2005. (en)
YOUNG R., LOVELL A. P. Introduction to Polymers. Taylor and Francis Group, ISBN 9780429109485. 2011. (en)
MLEZIVA, J., ŠŇUPÁREK, J. Polymery - výroba, struktura, vlastnosti a použití. Sobotáles, ISBN: 80-901570-4-1. 1993. (cs)
AKOVALI, G. Polymers in Construction. Smithers Rapra Press, ISBN 978-1859574683. 2005. (en)
YOUNG R., LOVELL A. P. Introduction to Polymers. Taylor and Francis Group, ISBN 9780429109485. 2011. (en)
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
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.