Brittle to ductile transition of polystyrene by high temperature programming

• Main Author: Tan, Alden Zheng Ching
• Other Authors: Huang Weimin
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Engineering::Mechanical engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/167494
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Polystyrene (PS) is one of the most used thermoplastics in the world due to its inexpensiveness, lightweight, and excellent mechanical properties. This project investigated polystyrene's brittle to ductile transition as a shape memory polymer in the form of Shrinky Dinks. The project aimed to e...