SYMPOSIA PAPER Published: 01 January 1959
STP46955S

Microscopical Studies of Failure in Polymers

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Microscopical techniques have been applied to studies of failure mechanisms in plastics. The studies were concerned with crazing, erosion due to wetting and drying, and failure in tension as a function of a number of variables. The light-optical techniques included phase-contrast, microinter-ferometric, and schlieren as well as brightfield techniques. Electron microscopy of surface replicas was also employed. An attempt was made to correlate the observations with mode of failure.

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Newman, Sanford, B.
National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C.
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Developed by Committee: E42
Pages: 132–152
DOI: 10.1520/STP46955S
ISBN-EB: 978-0-8031-6945-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-8031-6569-4