Principles of Polymer Engineering and Science

Alexandria University
Faculty of Engineering

November, 2013
2013
Principles of polymer Engineering and Science

Time allowed: 60 minutes
GPE 532
60 :
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1. Below, molecular weight data for a polypropylene material are tabulated. Compute (a) the number-average
molecular weight, (b)the weight-average molecular weight(c) The polydispersity index (30 points)
Molecular Weight Range (g/mol )
8,00016,000
16,00024,000
24,00032,000
32,00040,000
40,00048,000
48,00056,000
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0.05
0.16
0.24
0.28
0.20
0.07
0.02
0.10
0.20
0.30
0.27
0.11
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Examiner: Dr. Moustapha Salem Mansour
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2. Compare
1. Crystalline and amorphous (15 points)
Crystalline
amorphous
2. Thermoplastic and thermosetting (20 points)

Thermoplastic
thermosetting
3. Commodity and engineering polymers (15 points)

Commodity
engineering polymers
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2. Complete (50 points)

1. .. - arrangement fixed by the chemical bonding in the molecule
2.
Upon cooling from the melt state, the viscosity .. rapidly to a maximum value at T g
3. The earliest and simplest model of a semicrystalline polymer is the .. model.
4. The .. of a polymer can be altered without breaking a chemical bond.
5. The basic units of crystalline polymer morphology are crystalline .. consisting of arrays of folded
chains.
6. Structural properties, such as tensile strength, modulus and impact resistance tend to increase with higher
molecular weight
7. .. always ranges from 0.2 to 0.6
8. small-scale molecular motions are called .. relaxations.
9. .. relaxations. They can involve limited motions of the main chain or rotations, vibrations, or flips of
substituent groups.
10. .. always ranges from 1.2 1.6
11. Processing becomes more difficult as the amount and ease of flow .. as the longer molecules are less
mobile due to more .. and ...
12. Polymers with bulky substituents closely spaced along the chain often take on a ".. "
13. Polymer crystals are extremely ...
14. Plastic actually refers to the way a material .. and ..
15. Paper is made of .., which is a polymer of .. origin
16. One is that the glass transition marks an .. state
17. .. is term used to describe the polymer's physical form and characteristic textural features
18. .. is polymer's physical form and characteristic textural features.
19. Monomers are generally .. or ..
20. Molecules whose complex tacticity prevent ..
21. .. polypropylene is 90% crystalline, but .. polypropylene is 0% crystalline.
22. In the .. the groups have no preferred placement
23. In .. polymer the substituent groups regularly alternate from one side of the plane to the other
24. In .. polymer all the groups may lie on the same side of the plane formed by the extended-chain
backbone.
25. In .. polymer all the groups may lie on the same side of the plane formed by the extended-chain
backbone
26. In .. the groups have no preferred placement .
27. .. is that polymer containing a single repeat unit
28. High thermal energy favors a large number of .. in the melt state.
29. .. polymer long, randomly coiled, interpenetrating chains
30. For .. polymer the substituent groups regularly alternate from one side of the plane to the other.
31. For some polymers crystallized from the melt or from concentrated solution, crystallites can organize into larger
spherical structure called ..
32. For a .. polymer the PDI will be close to 1.0.
33. .. properties, do not vary significantly with change in molecular weight
34. Crystalline polymers may exhibit therefore, both a .. corresponding to long-range segmental motions in
the amorphous regions and .., at which crystallites are destroyed and an amorphous, disoriented melt is
formed.
35. Crosslinked polymer is ..; the polymer chains are joined chemically at tie points.
36. Copolymer is a mixture of .. polymers
37. Conformation is arrangement arising from the .. about a single bond.
38.cis-polyisoprene is .., while more easily packed trans-polyisoprene is ...
39. Both tacticity and geometrical isomerism (i.e. trans configuration) .. crystallinity.
40. A-A-B-A-B-B-A-B-A-B-B-B-A is considered .. polymer
41. A-A-A-A-A is considered ..
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42.A typical .. polymer will contain chains with a wide distribution of chain lengths.

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Alexandria University

Examiner: Dr. Moustapha Salem Mansour

2. Thermoplastic and thermosetting (20 points)

3. Commodity and engineering polymers (15 points)

2. Complete (50 points)

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