Elements and Performance Criteria
- Analyse response to steady and static loads.
- Determine stress strain response.
- Determine tear/notch failures.
- Identify modulus and yield.
- Identify creep and stress relaxation.
- Determine stiffness.
- Identify applications where the typical viscoelastic response of polymers is an advantage.
- Identify applications where the typical viscoelastic response of polymers must be modified and common methods of modification.
- Analyse response to time varying loads.
- Determine hysteresis in tensile and shear loadings.
- Determine the effect of slow/rapid (impact) loading.
- Identify failure modes in flex cycling
- Identify fatigue failure.
- Identify failures in sinusoidal loadings.
- Identify applications where the typical viscoelastic response of polymers is an advantage.
- Identify applications where the typical viscoelastic response of polymers must be modified and common methods of modification.
- Analyse the effect of environment/history on mechanical response.
- Determine effect of temperature on response.
- Determine effect of surface degradation on response.
- Determine effect of molecule/fibre/filler orientation on response.
- Determine the effect of environmental degradation on failure.
- Identify applications where the typical response of polymers is an advantage.
- Identify applications where the typical response of polymers must be modified and common methods of modification.
- Analyse the effect of shape on mechanical response.
- Determine the effect of shape on the stress/strain relationship (triaxiality).
- Determine the effect of shape on stiffness.
- Determine the effect of shape on response to cyclical loads.
- Determine the effect of shape on creep and relaxation.
- Identify applications where the typical response of polymers is an advantage.
- Identify applications where the typical response of polymers must be modified and common methods of modification.