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Influence of hydrostatic pressure on the lifetimes of polymers

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Under uniaxial tension, the lifetimes of polymers under hydrostatic pressure are longer than under atmospheric pressure. This effect is attributed to a change in the failure mechanism under pressure owing to retardation of the free-radical chain reaction of breakage of the macromolecules under omnidirectional compression.

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A. F. Ioffe Physicotechnical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Leningrad. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 2, pp. 207–213, March–April, 1976.

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Petrov, A.I., Betekhtin, V.I. & Zakrevskii, V.A. Influence of hydrostatic pressure on the lifetimes of polymers. Polymer Mechanics 12, 178–183 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00856449

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