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Mechanical Behavior of Polymers Material Sciences and Engineering Week 13 MatE271 1 Goals for this unit Recognize different types of polymers (Ch. 13) Understand the mechanical characteristics Why design with plastics? - Lightweight, resilient, Corrosion resistant - Transparent, color fastness, ease of processing - Favorable balance of properties Material Sciences and Engineering MatE271 Week 13 2 What is Polymer? - From the Greek polus (many), and meros (parts) - Contain C H O Cl N S - Natural Synthetic - About 80 commercial SYNTHETIC polymers (cf: inorganic polymers) - 180 including alloys, blends - 16000 including different grades (polymers and compounds) Material Sciences and Engineering MatE271 Week 13 3 Monomer Units in Some Polymers Mer-unit Polyethylene Polypropylene Polystyrene Material Sciences and Engineering MatE271 Week 13 4 Degree of Polymerization ï ï D.P. = polymer chain length (# repeating units) ñ e.g., D.P. (PVC) = 1000 ñ M(PVC) = M(PVC) = D.P. x Mo = 1000 x 62.5 D.P. is more convenient than MW for polymers 1000 MW 1,000,000 (typical values) 10 n, D.P. 10,000 (where Mo = 100 Material Sciences and Engineering MatE271 Week 13 5 Classification of Polymers - Thermoplastics (Acrylic) soften by heating - Thermosets (Epoxy) Hardened by heating - Elastomers (rubber silicon) flexible flexible@low tempts Material