ChE 776 Winter 2001

Approximate

Schedule                 Topic                                                                     Reference

1/3             0.0 Introduction                                                                  Middleman, Chap. 1,2

                                                                                                             Ý Tadmor, Chap. 1

1/4, 1/9     1.0 Review of Transport Phenomena                                 Middleman, Chap. 3,4,13

                                                                                                            Ý Tadmor, Chap. 5

                                                                                                            BSL, Chap.2,3,10,17,18

1/11, 1/16 2.0 Polymer Melt Rheology                                               Middleman, Chap. 5,14

General Phenomena                                                                             Ý Tadmor, Chap. 6

Constitutive Equations                                                                         DPL, Chap. 2,3,4

Plate and Capillary Rheometers

1/18 MIDTERM I

1/23         3.0 Solid Handling                                                             Ý Tadmor, Chap. 8

1/25         3.1 Polymer Melting                                                             Middleman, 13-9

                                                                                                            Ý Tadmor, Chap. 9

1/30, 2/1  3.2 Polymer Pumping                                                         Middleman, Chap. 6,13

                                                                                                            Ý Tadmor, Chap. 10

2/6, 2/8     4.0 Extrusion                                                                      Middleman, Chap. 6

                                                                                                            Ý Tadmor, Chap. 12

2/13     MIDTERM II

2/15         Polymer Processing Laboratory Tour

2/20         5.0 Die Forming                                                                 Middleman, Chap. 5,13

                                                                                                            Ý Tadmor, Chap. 13

2/22, 2/27 6.0 Cyclic Molding (Injection,                                           Middleman, Chap. 11

                        Compression, Transfer, Casting)                                Ý Tadmor, Chap. 14

3/1 7.0 Other Shaping Processes                                                         Middleman, Chap. 9,10

3/6, 3/8         .1 Melt Spinning                                                             Ý Tadmor, Chap. 15

                     .2 Solution Spinning

                     .3 Film Blowing

                     .4 Blow Molding

                     .5 Thermoforming

5/29 FINAL EXAM (Tuesday, March 13 @ 9:30 ­ 11:18 AM)

Ý Students are responsible for these chapters in Tadmor and Gogos