MOL-42196 Adhesion and Surface Modifications, 5 cr
Person responsible
Johanna Lahti, Mikko Kanerva
Lessons
| Implementation | Period | Person responsible | Requirements |
| MOL-42196 2018-01 | 3 - 4 |
Mikko Kanerva Johanna Lahti |
Exam |
Learning Outcomes
The target of the course is to make participants understand the importance and factors of adhesion related to materials performance and the fundamental concepts of crack, fracture and delamination related to failure of adhesive bond. The target skills are the ability to apply surface treatments for specific materials to improve adhesion and the ability to plan work for understanding and solving practical problems related to the enhancement and semi-empirical prediction of adhesion.
Content
| Content | Core content | Complementary knowledge | Specialist knowledge |
| 1. | Main factors affecting adhesive bonds at material interfaces | The student is able to solve possible adhesion problems in different production processes and can predict functionality of materials in terms of adhesion at bonds. | |
| 2. | Surface characteristics: Wetting and surface energy | Contact angle measurements | DIfferent models of surface enregy determination |
| 3. | Importance of adhesion to material performance | Specific surface treatment and modification methods (e.g. corona, flame, plasma, chemical modification (primers, adhesion promoters) | Surface treatment devices |
| 4. | Concepts of crack, fracture and delamination | Numerical models for bond failure | Nonlinearity of materials, damage |
| 5. | Understands scientific thinking, reasoning and explanation | Evaluates and develops his/her information gathering processes | Knows the risks associated with digital environments and takes them into account in his/her own actions |
| 6. | Gathers, processes, evaluates, analyses and uses information in a versatile, critical and ethical way | ||
| 7. | Has mastered at least one foreign language at a level that allows him/her to follow the developments in the field and to work in an international environment |
Study material
| Type | Name | Author | ISBN | URL | Additional information | Examination material |
| Book | Contact angle, wettability and adhesion | Mittal K.L. (ed) | 90-6764-157-x | No | ||
| Book | Paper and paperboard converting | Kuusipalo, J. (ed) | 978-952-5216-28-8 | Chapter 2 | Yes | |
| Lecture slides | Johanna Lahti | Yes |
Prerequisites
| Course | Mandatory/Advisable | Description |
| MOL-42106 Polymeric Materials | Advisable | |
| MOL-42236 Advanced Composites | Advisable | |
| MOL-42257 Elastomers | Advisable | |
| MOL-42316 Processing of Thermoplastics | Advisable |
Correspondence of content
There is no equivalence with any other courses