Introduction to composite materials

  • ECTS

    1 credits

  • Component

    Collège Sciences et Technologies pour l’Energie et l’Environnement (STEE)

  • Number of hours

    9h

Description

Students will discover polymer based composite materials. 

The objective of these courses and tutorials is to give them all the knowledge to identify these materials and make choices to meet a specific application (environment, mechanical and thermal stresses, industrial sector, manufacturing processes, production rates). 

The 9 hours of lecture are organized into 4,5 hours of lessons illustrated by examples of composites constituents, parts, processes, ... and 4,5 hours of tutorials focused on applications. 

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Objectives

At the end of this course, you will be able to: 

  • Identify a composite material, its constituents, its charges, 
  • Identify the process by which it was implemented (manufacture), 
  • Understand the choices that guided the designers of a composite part, 
  • Make your own choices of composite materials, 
  • Decide on a manufacturing process. 
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Pre-requisites

  • Mechanics of continuous media: tensors of stresses, strains, constitutive law, 
  • Materials science: properties and behavior of polymers. 
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Knowledge check

First session : 100% written final exam.

Second session : 100% written final exam.

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Additional information

Follow-up courses : UE Composite materials 2. 

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Skills

Block "Advanced and specialised use of digital tools" 

Identify the digital uses and the impact of their evolution on the field(s) concerned by the SGM mention 

Level 1 

Block "Development and integration of highly specialized knowledge" 

Mobilise highly specialised knowledge, some of which is at the forefront of knowledge in a field of work or study, as a basis for original thinking  

Level 3 

Develop a critical awareness of knowledge in one field and/or at the interface of several fields  

Level 3 

Solve problems to develop new knowledge and procedures and integrate knowledge from different domains.  

Level 1 

Make innovative contributions in high-level exchanges and in international contexts. 

Level 1 

Conduct a reflective and distanced analysis taking into account the issues, problems and complexity of a request or situation in order to propose adapted and/or innovative solutions in compliance with changes in regulations 

Level 2 

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