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Dive into a broad range of topics essential to understanding and preventing plastic failure.
The most efficient and effective approach to plastic component failure is performing a systematic failure analysis following scientific method. Someone once said, 鈥淚f you don鈥檛 know how something broke, you can鈥檛 fix it,鈥� highlighting the importance of a thorough understanding of how and why a product has failed.
This course can be applied to the following certificate:
Plastics Technology Certificate
Benefits and Learning Outcomes
- Name the essentials of why plastic components fail
- Describe the five factors affecting plastic part performance
- Identify the process of conducting a failure investigation
- Recognize the importance of ductile-to-brittle transitions and their role in plastic component failure
- Assess how and why a product has failed
- Evaluate approaches to more quickly respond to and resolve plastic component failure
- Demonstrate methods and techniques to avoid future failures
Course Outline/Topics
- Introduction to Plastics
- Overview of Plastics
- Composition
- Properties
- Plastic Part Failure
- Failure Correction and Prevention
- Part Design
- Mold Design
- Material Selection
- Processing
- Validation Testing
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- Failure of Plastics Overview
- Failure Mechanisms
- The Roles of Multiple Factor Concurrency and Statistical Distribution in Plastic Part Failure
- Failure Analysis
- Problem Solving / Investigation Techniques 鈥� FA and RCA
- Failure Analysis Test Methods
- Case Studies
Who Should Attend
Engineers, scientists, technicians and managers who design, fabricate and manufacture plastic components.