Environmental stress cracking on thermoplastics - A new approach to testing
Abstract
A flexural relaxometer is described for use in characterizing the environmental stress cracking tendencies of glassy plastics. Testing procedures are discussed and data indicating critical strain values, rates of cracking, and rates of dissolution are presented.
- Publication:
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Journal of Testing Evaluation
- Pub Date:
- July 1976
- Bibcode:
- 1976JTeEv...4..263H
- Keywords:
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- Environment Effects;
- Fracture Mechanics;
- Measuring Instruments;
- Relaxation (Mechanics);
- Stress Corrosion Cracking;
- Thermoplastic Resins;
- Crack Initiation;
- Crack Propagation;
- Critical Loading;
- Failure Analysis;
- Glass;
- Molecular Structure;
- Strain Rate;
- Stress Relaxation;
- Instrumentation and Photography