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Polymer Materials
FAST-NJA030Acad. year: 2023/2024
The tuition renders a complex survey about plastics produce at home and abroad, briefly discusses the production of these materials and especially the properties and the utilization in building work. The stress is laid to new plastics with maximal length of service life. Coursse describes cellulose, polyethylene, polypropylene, polyesters, polytetrafluorethylen, PVC, polyamide, polystyrene and epoxy resins, polyesters, polyurethane, modern acrylic polymers, polyacrilate and silicones as well.
The description of different types of polymer includes typical products of each polymer and reasons for selection of particular polymer for certain product.
The course makes the student acquainted with the possibility of polymers added into cement mortars and concrete, but the main stress is laid to the rehabilitation of building structures, which is at the time being a very actual problem in building industry.
The lessons are supplemented by laboratory assignments.
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The student would manage the goal of the subject by acquiring a complex overview of plastic substances produced in the CR and abroad, on new plastic materials with maximum endurance, on possibilities of plastic substances added to the cement mortars and concretes with focus on sanitation of concrete structures.
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Basic literature
DROCHYTKA, R. Plastické látky. 161 str., 2008. Elektronické studijní opory FAST VUT. (CS)
Recommended reading
COUZENS, E. G., a YARSLEY, V. E. Plastics in the Modern Word. 1.ed. Harmonworth, 1968. (EN)
MLEZIVA, J., ŠŇUPÁREK, J. Polymery - výroba, struktura, vlastnosti a použití. Sobotáles, ISBN: 80-901570-4-1. 1993. (CS)
YOUNG R., LOVELL A. P. Introduction to Polymers. Taylor and Francis Group, ISBN 9780429109485. 2011. (EN)
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- Programme NPC-SIM Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
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