PLAST 140 - Plastic Materials Testing

Credits: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 2
Lab Contact Hours: 1
Description: This course provides an in-depth analysis of plastic material’s testing. Students will gain an understanding of plastic testing procedures and how they are applied to evaluating plastic materials performance characteristics. The student will also develop the ability to report, and demonstrate the ability to understand, the test results.

Prerequisites: PLAST 130
Corequisites: None.
Recommended: None.

Course Category: Occupational
This Course is Typically Offered: Fall, Winter
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Course Competencies

Perform the tensile/flexural test explaining the different portions of a test curve.
Perform the Heat Distortion Temperature (HDT) test on various engineering plastics.
Perform the glass transition test. Determine the chemical resistance of various plastics.
Determine the Vicat Softening Point of various plastics.
Perform the Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA) test.
Perform the creep resistance test on various plastics.
Perform the impact test on various plastics.
Determine the ash content of various plastics.
Perform the melt flow test on various plastics.
Explore the purpose, practical applications, and results of plastic tests.
Demonstrate safe laboratory procedures.
Demonstrate general instrument calibration procedures.
Describe accelerated tests to simulate long-term exposure.
Evaluate accuracy and precision of results.
Report data derived from various plastic tests.