Durability-aging of materials

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

Hourly volume* : 11h CM :

                                    9h TD

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

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

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

- Identify the different factors influencing the degradation of polymers

- Distinguish the different types of chemical degradation of polymers

- Describe the radiochemical degradation of polymers

Elements of elementary mechanics (undergraduate 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

Final test

Durability of materials, degradation, aging, study method and modeling of aging

Administrative contact(s):

Master Secretariat

master-chimie @ umontpellier.fr (master-chimie @ umontpellier.fr)