Course Duration: Approx. 20 min.
Cost: $99
Course Overview
Design engineers and materials engineers are faced with a substantial array of alternatives when it comes to selecting the right engineering plastic for any application.
The workhorse amongst engineering polymers is nylon (polyamide), but this in itself encompasses a wide range of options with property differences, some slight, some critical.
In this course, materials specialist Andy Pye briefly covers the factors which may have led an engineer to seek a solution from the nylon family. He then explains the different materials within that family, before focusing on the two most common members of the nylon family, which are Nylon 6 and Nylon 66.
What are the differences and which one should you choose, and why? He covers the mechanical, thermal and environmental properties, as well as the effect of fibre reinforcement.
While at the beginning of the course, Andy briefly covers some other members of the nylon family, including nylons 11, nylon 12, amorphous nylons, he concludes the session by looking at 3D printing of nylons. Unlike with regular processing methods, where nylons are a dominant force, they are rarely seen in this newest of processing methods, where nylon 11 and 12 are more prominent, along with other polymer families.
Materials selection of polymers is an enormous and still fast-moving field, so Andy offers to dialogue with engineers who have particular problems, issues or questions which are challenging them beyond this introductory presentation.
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