- Docente: Paola Fabbri
- Credits: 6
- SSD: ING-IND/22
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Advanced Design (cod. 9256)
Learning outcomes
The course deals with the properties of plastic materials and their technologies, in the modern acceptation for design and sustainability, with main reference to the wide degrees of freedom offered by plastics in design.
At the end of the course the Student will:- know technical and perceptive-sensorial properties of plastics, their classification and main features; - be skilled in the creative design made using plastics as tools for innovation; -know and be able to apply the selection criteria for plastics in specific products; - be able to critically select materials following products needs, including environmental sustainability.
Course contents
- Introduction to the potential applications of plastic materials in the framework of industrial product design. Fundamentals of design with plastics. History of plastics development.
- The cycle of design: where materials selection matters. Criteria and methods for materials selection. Data sources. Multiple selection criteria. Optimisation of materials selection. Compromise solutions. Conjugated design of product, materials and production technology.
- The composition of industrial plastics: compounding and formulation with additives. Product and process additives.
- Durability and degradation
- Comparison between plastica and other classes of materials
- Mechanical properties of plastics
- Thermal properties of plastics
- Optical, aesthetic and sensorial properties of plastics
- Rheology and viscoelasticity
- Most relevant glassy and semicrystalline polymers
- Elastomers: crosslinked vs thermoplastic
- Bioplastics: bio-based and biodegradable polymers. Sustainable design using bioplastics. Bioplastics as tools for products innovation.
- Polymer processing technologies.
- polymer matrix composite materials and their related technologies
- functional polymers
- polymer recycling
Readings/Bibliography
Barbara Del Curto, Claudia Marano, Maria Pia Pedeferri
Materiali per il Design
Introduzione ai materiali e alle loro proprietà
Seconda edizione
- Casa Editrice Ambrosiana. Distribuzione esclusiva Zanichelli
Teaching methods
Frontal lectures using slides previously provided to students. Video-clips on polymer processing.
Assessment methods
Oral exam for the discussion of at least 2 different arguments selected by the examination in between the full teaching program.
Teaching tools
Visit to the research labs of polymer science and technology at DICAM. Visits to companies for polymer processing.
Office hours
See the website of Paola Fabbri