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The environmental stress crazing of polycarbonate

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The environmental crazing from a central hole in extruded polycarbonate sheets, using ethanol as a crazing liquid, was studied. A stress analysis was made to analyse the criteria for craze initiation and growth. The craze length was found to change linearly with the square root of time and the rate of crazing was found to vary exponentially with the applied stress (above a certain stress level). It was concluded that the principal strain is the controlling parameter for environmental craze initiation and growth.

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  1. Department of Chemical Engineering and Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, 06268, Storrs, Connecticut, USA

    J. Miltz, A. T. DiBenedetto & S. Petrie

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Miltz, J., DiBenedetto, A.T. & Petrie, S. The environmental stress crazing of polycarbonate. J Mater Sci 13, 1427–1437 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00553195

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