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Craze initiation and growth in rigid PVC
thesis
posted on 2018-07-26, 14:07 authored by David C. WrightThe approach adopted here has been to look for discontinuities
in the deformation behaviour of UPVC and to attempt to correlate these
with the brittle failure process. This approach has the premise that
deformation and the initiation of the failure process have a strong
interaction, i.e. one perturbs the other. Evidence to support this
interaction in UPVC (and other glassy amorphous polymers) is abundant.
The connecting link between deformation and failure could well be craze
initiation and growth.
Funding
Rubber and Plastics Research Association of Great Britain (RAPRA).
History
School
- Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering
Department
- Materials
Publisher
© David Charles WrightPublisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
1975Notes
A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy at Loughborough University.Language
- en
