Plastics Testing and Characterization Laboratory detailed syllabus for Plastics Technology (Plastics) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna University official website and presented for the Plastics students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Plastics Technology 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Plastics 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. The detailed syllabus of plastics testing and characterization laboratory is as follows.
Course Objectives:
- To create the knowledge about the different testing techniques and its basic concepts for evaluating the chemical, mechanical, electrical, optical, thermal, and permanence properties of plastic materials.
- To enable the students to identify and compare the properties of different plastics materials
- To understand about characterisation techniques and equipments
List of Experiments:
- Determination of tensile, flexural and compression properties of plastics materials using universal testing machine.
- Determination of Rate of flow of plastics (Melt flow index)
- Identify the given plastic material using FTIR spectrum
- Composition analysis of plastics composites using DSC and TGA
- Determine the hardness (Shore A & D, Barcol and Rockwell) of plastic material
- Determine the abrasion resistance of Plastic materials
- Determine the impact strength (Izod, Charpy) of Plastic materials and dart impact strength of plastic films
- Determine the Density, Moisture content and water absorption for plastic materials.
- Testing of electrical properties of plastics a) Arc resistance b) Surface and Volume resistance c) Comparative tracking index (CTI) d) Dielectric strength e) Dielectric constant and dissipation factor
- Determine the filler content (Ash content) and TiO2 content in plastics
- Determination of Heat deflection temperature and Vicat softening point of plastics materials
- Determine the moulding shrinkage of given plastic materials
(Any Nine of the above)
Course Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, the students would be able to
- Determine important properties of plastic materials
- Prepare specimen by injection moulding and contour cutting
- Will be able to get knowledge about the different testing techniques and its basic concepts for evaluating the chemical, mechanical, electrical, optical, thermal, and permanence properties of plastic materials.
- Will learn about sophisticated characterisation equipments
Text Books:
- Vishu Shah, Hand Book of Plastics Testing Technology, John Wiley & Sons. Inc. New York, 1998.
- R.P. Brown, Hand Book of Plastics Test Methods, George Godwin Ltd., London,1981
Reference Books:
- ASTM, ISO and BIS standards of relevant tests
- J.S. Anand, K. Ramamurthy, K. Palanivelu & C. Brahatheeswaran, How to Identify Plastics by Simple Methods, 1997.
For detailed syllabus of all other subjects of Plastics Technology, 2021 regulation curriculum do visit Plastics 5th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
For all Plastics Technology results, visit Anna University Plastics all semester results direct link.