Course overview
- Course codeFIMS007
- ECTS credits7.5
- DepartmentINDUSTRIAL AND MATERIALS SCIENCE
- Graduate schoolMaterials Science
- PeriodicityEnglish
- LanguageEnglish
- Nordic Five Tech (N5T)The course is free of charge for PhD students from N5T Universities.
- ApplicationContact the course coordinator
Course coordinator
- Antal Boldizar
- Professor Emeritus, Industrial and Materials Science
- Giada Lo Re
- Associate Professor, Engineering Materials, Industrial and Materials Science
About the course
Seminars will deal with the subjects of rubber elasticity and linear viscoelasticity, time-temperature equivalence and anisotropic mechanical behaviour, relaxation, creep and non-linear viscoelasticity, yielding and instability and breaking phenomena.
More information
antal.boldizar@chalmers.se, giadal@chalmers.se
Literature
The course will be based on selected chapters of the book An introduction to the mechanical properties of solid polymers", 2nd ed., I.M. Ward and J. Sweeney, Wiley 2004. Course attendants are to have access to the course book from start.
Lecturer
Antal Boldizar, Giada Lo Re