Durability-aging of materials

One of the major issues related to the use of different materials in our daily lives is their durability and therefore their degradation. In this course, we will address issues related to the sustainability of materials (resources, reserves, criticality of materials, etc.) as well as methodologies for studying sustainability (types of surface/volume aging, temporal extrapolation, multi-scale, combination of effects, experimental representation, and industrial validation). This will then allow us to model the kinetics of aging using different models.

The different types of degradation affecting polymers will then be analyzed.

Finally, the aging of different types of materials will be illustrated by various concrete case studies (concrete, ceramics, metals, and elastomers).

Hours per week*: 11 hours CM:

                                    9 a.m. tutorial

- Identify the characteristics of sustainability issues and the limitations of the approaches used

- Understand and know how to establish the relationship between the mechanisms governing aging and changes in the physical, chemical, and functional properties of materials.

- Know how to propose a multi-scale methodology for studying the sustainability of a product/material.

- Identify the various factors influencing polymer degradation

- Distinguish between different types of chemical degradation of polymers

- Describe the radiochemical degradation of polymers

Elements of elementary mechanics (bachelor's degree level)

Elements on particle diffusion (particle balance, diffusion equation)

Elements of mechanical properties of polymers

Elements of chemical kinetics

Physical mechanisms of deformation: Atomic origin of elasticity

Terminal control

Material durability, degradation, aging, study methods, and aging modeling

Administrative contact(s):

Master's Program Office

Master's degree in Chemistry @ umontpellier.fr