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308.107 Polymers for Special Applications
This course is in all assigned curricula part of the STEOP.
This course is in at least 1 assigned curriculum part of the STEOP.

2025S, VO, 2.0h, 3.0EC

Properties

Semester hours: 2.0
Credits: 3.0
Type: VO Lecture
Format: Presence

Learning outcomes

After successful completion of the course, students are able to:

define the characteristic properties of high-performance plastics such as fluoroplastics (PTFE, PFA, FEP, ETFE, PVDF, ECTFE, PCTFE), polyaryl ether ketones (PAEK), polyimides (PI), liquid crystalline plastics (LCP) etc.
explain how electrically conductive polymers are constructed
characterize properties of UV light-curable special polymers
name manufacturing processes and characteristic properties of elastomers

Subject of course

Polymers with High Temperature Resistance, Functional Polymers, Biodegradable Polymers, Elastomers

Teaching methods

frontal teaching
calculation examples
videos
illustrative material

Mode of examination

Written

Lecturers

Institute

E308 Institute of Materials Science and Technology

Examination modalities

Exam questions as example:

Why is PEEK so interesting for biomedical applications?

Write 3 important properties of von PE-UHMW

Draw a typical stress-strain-temperature diagram (3D, first cycle) for a thermoplastic shape-memory polymer with a thermally induced shape-memory effect. Explain different steps

Exams

Day	Time	Date	Room	Mode of examination	Application time	Application mode	Exam
Tue	14:00 - 16:00	21.01.2025	FH Hörsaal 1 - MWB	written	03.01.2025 10:00 - 20.01.2025 17:00	TISS	SPK 21.01.2025
Tue	12:00 - 14:00	04.03.2025	FH Hörsaal 1 - MWB	written	17.02.2025 12:00 - 03.03.2025 17:00	TISS	SPK 04.03.2025
Fri	14:00 - 16:00	11.04.2025	FH Hörsaal 1 - MWB	written	24.03.2025 10:00 - 10.04.2025 17:00	TISS	SPK 11.04.2025

Course registration

Begin	End	Deregistration end
12.02.2025 00:00	17.05.2025 23:59

Curricula

Study Code	Obligation	Semester	Precon.	Info
066 434 Materials Sciences	Not specified
066 445 Mechanical Engineering	Elective
066 473 Chemical and Process Engineering for Sustainable Production	Not specified
066 482 Mechanical Engineering - Management	Elective

Literature

There are no lecture notes available for this course. The presentation slides will be accessible on TUWEL.

Literature related to the course i.a.

G.W. Becker, D. Braun (Hrsg.): Kunststoffhandbuch 3/3 Hochleistungs-Kunststoffe Carl Hanser Verlag, München Wien, 1994
H. Domininghaus, P. Elsner (Hrsg.), P. Eyrerer (Hrsg.), T. Hirth (Hrsg.): Kunststoffe – Eigenschaften und Anwendungen Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2008