Sophisticated Testing of Polymers and Rubbers
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Sophisticated Testing of Polymers and Rubbers Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Sophisticated Testing of Polymers and Rubbers (subject code 3173622) as prescribed for Chem. Tech. · Semester 7 divides the course into 5 units, covering 25 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3173622)Unit 1 Basic Concepts and Advancements in Testing
- Specifications and standards
- Purpose of specifications
Unit 2 Structural Evaluation of Polymers- Principles, theories & applications to
- polymers system with suitable illustration of the following techniques: Fourier transform infrared spectrometry
- Ultraviolet Visible spectrometry
- Nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry
- Mass spectrometry
- X-ray diffraction spectrometry
- Gas chromatography
Unit 3 Determination of Viscosity- Polymer solutions & polymer melts
- Their significance
- application to polymers using different viscometers
- Determination of viscoelastic properties of polymers & rubbers
- Testing of Rubber Compounds by Mooney viscometer and Determination of vulcanization properties by ODR and MDR
Unit 4 Material Characterization Tests
- Melt flow rate
- Dilute solution Viscosity of Polymers
- Tests for Elevated Temperature Performance: Heat deflection temperature
- Vicat softening temperature
- Thermal Analysis Techniques: DSC, TGA, TMA and DMT & their applications to polymers with suitable examples
Unit 5 Electrical Properties- Surface volume resistivity, Breakdown voltage. Arc
- Ten Delta, etc
- The theory behind these phenomena
- application to polymers & evaluation.
- Mechanical properties : Their principles & applications to polymers
- Tensile strength
- flexural strength
- impact resistance
- 8 Subject Code: 3173622 w.e.f
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