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2010-2011 UMass Dartmouth Graduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

MTX 502 - Advanced Materials and Composites

3 credits
Processes used for producing functionally advanced and intelligent fibrous materials: Lamination, coating, flocking, wet layup, resin transfer molding, sheet molding, pultrusion, and filament winding. Also studied are resins for coating, adhesives and polymeric matrices, and reinforcing fibrous structures and preforms such as prep-reg, fabrics, 3-D woven fabrics, non-wovens, nanofibers, braided and knotted structures. Properties of the resulting structures and their application areas such as nanocomposites, biological fibrous composites, medical, military, and other industrial and functional products are considered.