Applied mathematics in Plastic Industry
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Applied mathematics in Plastic Industry Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Applied mathematics in Plastic Industry (subject code 3132306) as prescribed for Plastics · Semester 3 divides the course into 5 units, covering 34 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 (3132306)Unit 1 Introduction
- Basic concept of Stress and Strain
- Ideal elastic solid
- pure viscous flow
Unit 2 Mechanical blehaviour of plastics
- Stress Strain behaviour of plastic materials
- long term and short term tests
- creep behavior
- Design methods for plastics using Deformation Data
- Isometric and Isochronous graphs
- Pseudo- elastic design method for plastics
- beam calculations
- Thermal stresses and strains
- The concept of stress concentration
- General fracture behavior of Plastics
Unit 3 Viscoelastic models
- Generalized Hook’s and Newtons law, Maxwell Model
- Kelvin Voigt Model
- Complex models
- Burger model
- Zener model
- Creep Curves
- Numericals related to these models
- Deformation behavior of polymeric materials
Unit 4 Analysis of polymer melt flow
- General Behaviour of plastic melts
- Isothermal flow in channels [ Non Newtonian Fluids]
- Rheological models of Polymer melt flow
- Elastic behavior of Polymer melt
- Swelling ratios due to shear stress / tensile stresses
- Experimental methods to obtain flow data[Cone and plate viscometer
- Concentric Cylinder Viscometer
- Ram Extruder]
- Analysis of heat transfer during Plastic Processing
Unit 5 Mechanical behavior of composites
- Deformation behavior of reinforced plastics
- Types of reinforcement and matrix
- Aspect ratio
- Analysis of continuous fibre composites -longitudinal Properties- Properties parallel to longitudinal axis 05 Subject Code: 3132306
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