Time dependent crack growth in polyethylene : characterizing the da/dt = AKn dependence and the effects of Igepal /

Testing of newly developed high density polyethylene (HDPE) resins is both time consuming and costly. This thesis presents a fracture mechanics approach to ranking polymers and predicting lifetimes for long-term, brittle-like failures by studying slow crack growth (SCG) rate as a function of stress...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Slay, Jeremy Buc
Format:	Thesis eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 1999.
Subjects:	Major mechanical engineering.
Online Access:	Link to OAKTrust copy