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plastics engineering questionnaire solution

1.
A) thermoplastic
polimeros lineales o ramificados en los que las cadenas de moleculas no estan interconectadas
,
los termoplasticos pueden ser amorfos y cristalinos ; se procesan en formas calentando a altas
temperaturas .
B ) plasticos termoendurecibles
son Como un monton de cadenas anudadas cada Cadena puede tener cadenas unidas en otro
lado
generalmente son mas Fuertes pero mas fragiles que los termoplasticos los termoestables no
se
derriten cuando se calientan , pero comienzan a desconponerse , el reciclaje es mas dificil
debido
al proceso de reaccion de reticulacion
C) Elastomeros
Polimeros termoplasticos o termoestables ligeramente reticulados que tienen una
deformacion
del 200%
D) Elastómeros termoplásticos
Este es un grupo especial de polímeros que no dependen de la reticulacion para producir una
gran
cantidad de deformación elástica.
2. What are the major advantages of plastics compared to ceramics, glasses, and metallic
materials?

Plastics are organic materials, include elastomers or rubber, the principal difference
Plastics have a good strenght to weight relation, because ceramics, grasses and
metallic havent good streng to weight relation , ceramics are crystaline materials that have a
middle resistance but not have ideal weight, glasses have great weight they arent resistant the
comportment metallic materials are similar.

PLASTICS CERAMICS GLASSES METALLIC

Good eletrical and Ceramics dont conduct Glasses are a thermical have good electrical and
thermal insulators heat well aislant, no are thermal conductivity.
conductors.

have a good strenght to are strong and hard, but is an amorphous material They are particularly
weight relation also very brittle useful for structural or
load-bearing
periodic arrangement of
applications
Made by refining atoms
naturally

Inorganic crystaline
metals.

Used at high they must be heated to Resist hight permit better

temperatures, many very high temperatures temperatures combinations of
plastics are corrosive properties
before melting
resistants

Termhoplastics have sufficiently resistant to Arent ductility and Metals and alloys have
good ductility and formability relatively high strength,
formability high stiffness, ductility
or formability, and shock
resistance.

3. Kevlar is used in various applications from tires to body armor due to its high
strength-to-weight ratio. The polymer is produced from the monomers paraphenylene
diamine and terephthaloyl chloride by the following reaction:
What type of polymerization does the above reaction represent

Styrene This molecular compound is also known as vinylbenzene, ethenylbenzene,

cinnamene or phenylethylene

4. The molecular weight of polystyrene is 5,4×106 g/mol.

If all of the polymer chains are the same length, (a) calculate the degree of polymerization.
C=8
H= 8

PESO MOLECULAR
C =12*8= 96
H= 1*8= 8

96+8= 104

54000000/104= 519.230 PESO MOLECULAR DEL POLIESTIRENO

5.
6. Analysis of a sample of polyacrylonitrile shows that there are six lengths of chains, with
the following number of chains of each length. Complete the charge and determine both the
number and weight average molecular weights.
 Numero Peso xi xiMi Weight fi fiMi
de molecular
cadenas medio de
las
cadenas
(g/mol)
10000 3000 0.14 420 30*10^6 0.0442 132.6
18000 6000 0.25 1500 108*10^6 0.15929 955.74
17000 9000 0.23 2070 153*10^6 0.22566 2030.94
15000 12000 0.21 2520 180*10^6 0.26666 3199.2
9000 15000 0.12 1800 135*10^6 0.19911 2986.65
4000 18000 0.05 900 72*10^6 0.10619 1911.42
Total 1.00 9210 678*10^6 1.00 11216.55
73000

the data has been taken and based on the book

" The science and engineering of materials Donald R. Askeland, Pradeep P. Fulay, Wendelin
J. Wright. 6th ed." chapter. 16. Polymers: #16.1-16.3