Polymer Rheology and Kinetics
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The official GTU curriculum for Polymer Rheology and Kinetics (subject code ME02084091) as prescribed for PE · Semester 2 divides the course into 5 units, covering 66 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 (ME02084091)Unit 1 RHEOLOGY OF PLASTIC MATERIALS
- A.INTRODUCTION : Introduction to Rheological Principles
- Definition & importance of Rheology
- types of fluids
- Non Newtonian fluids
- time-dependent fluids
- time independent fluids
- viscous elastic fluids
- Pseudoplastic fluids
- Dilatant fluids
- Bingham plastic fluids
- Introduction to tensors
- stress tensors and strain GUJARATTECHNOLOGICALUNIVERSITY Program Name: Master of Engineering Level: PG Branch: Plastics Engineering Subject Code: ME02084051 Subject Name: Polymer Rheology and Kinetics tensors
- Basic equations of fluid mechanics - Continually equation
- Couchy equation
- Navier – stokes equation
- Normal stress difference and Weissenberg’s effect
Unit 2 B. VISCOELASTIC BEHAVIOUR
- Stress relaxation
- relaxation modulus
- creep compliance dynamic modulus
- dynamic compliance
- dynamic viscosity
- Mechanical models – Maxwell model
- Voigt – Kelvin model
- Zener model
- Boltzmann Principle of Superposition
- Time-temperature correspondence
- time temperature superposition
- WLF equation
- Glass-transition and theories of glass transition - free volume theory
- thermodynamic theory and kinetic theory
- Molecular theories – Rouse theory
- Doi – Edward theory
- Curtis – bird model
Unit 3 C. PARAMETERS INFLUENCING RHEOLOGY
- Effect of pressure on viscosity
- Effect of temperature
- activation energy
- effect of molecular weight and molecular weight distribution on viscosity
- molecular at dependence of zero shear viscosity
- effect of crosslinking
- crystallinity branching
- effect of fillers
- fiber filled polymer melts
- effect of plasticizers
- shear rate dependence of viscosity
Unit 4 D.MELT FLOW ANALYSIS
- Laminar flow through circular c/s
- parallel plates
- irregular profiles
- Flow analysis using power law, turbulent flow analysis
- turbulence dumpling
- Rheological models for extensional viscosity
- Transition between laminar & turbulent flow
- Ryan Johnson criterion
- Application of Ryan Johnson criterion to power low fluids
- extensional flow and rheological models for extensional viscosity
- Flow in coni cylindrical dies – pressure drop due to shear
- pressure drop due to extensional flow and pressure drop at die entry
- flow in wedge shaped die
- Swelling due to shear stresses and swelling due to tensile stresses E
- RHEOMETRY : Basic concept of constant stress & constant strain
- Different types of Rheometers–Cone and plate Rheometer
- Concentric cylinder rheometer
- parallel disk rheometer
- concentric rotating disk rheometer
- controlled stress rotational Rheometer
- Torque Rheometers – Extruder type
Unit 5 PLASTIC REACTION ENGINEERING
- Elements of Polymer Reaction Engineering Introduction to Kinetics of homogenous Reaction Interpretation of Batch Reactor Data GUJARATTECHNOLOGICALUNIVERSITY Program Name: Master of Engineering Level: PG Branch: Plastics Engineering Subject Code: ME02084051 Subject Name: Polymer Rheology and Kinetics Single Ideal Reactor Mechanism and kinetics of polymerization Polymerization Reaction Engineering Reactors for various commodity plastics Reactors for different polymerization technique
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