Rheology: Newtons equation, pseodoplasticity, power law behaviour, constitutive parameters relating to materials structure, extensional flow and extensional viscosity, methods to assess rheological quantitiues.
Heat transfer: conductive, radiative and convective.
Solidification of polymers, crystallisation and glass
formationInjection moulding: basics, flow in the mould, packing in the mould cavity, cooling the melt, heat removal from the mould, mould materials, orientation, shrinkage and other process-related problems.
Extrusion: Basics, solids conveying and hopper design, melting, melt pumping, die design, cooling the plastics outside the extruder.
Basics (overview) of the following methods: thermoforming, compression and transfer moulding, rotational moulding, sintering, blow moulding, assembling techniques.
Exercises: injection moulding, extrusion and film blowing.