Crazing Shear Banding
Crazing Often, when an amorphous brittle polymer is loaded in tension, a…
Mechanical Behaviour
Three typically different stress-strain behaviours can be observed in polymeric materials. A…
PropertiesTempertature Effects
Polymer Properties When considering a polymer for use in any application it…
Polymerisation
Polymers are produced from their constituent monomers through a process known as…
Polymer Types
There are 3 principal classes of polymers – thermoplastics, thermosets, and elastomers.…
Crystalline or Amorphous
A polymer therefore is a series of long chain molecules composed into…
Introduction to Polymers
Engineering materials commonly known as plastics, rubbers, and adhesives are all correctly…
FLORY-HUGGINS PARAMETER
Many thermodynamic properties of polymer solutions such as solubility, phase equlibria as…
Molecular Weight and The Effects on Polymer Properties
Molecular weight can have a huge impact on a material’s final properties.…
POLYMER SOLUBILITY AND SOLUBILITY PARAMETER
Solubility parameters were initially developed to guide solvent selection in the paint…


