The Fatigue Crack Propagation (FCP) behavior of block amide copolymers is investigated as a function of molecular weight, rubber toughening as well as environmental conditions. The enhancement of FCP resistance with increasing average molecular weight is shown and correlated to features observed on the fracture surface. Particular attention is paid to hysteretic heating, measured with an infrared camera, in the crack tip zone of different average molecular weight copolymers and rubber-toughened copolymer. A FCP approach of stress-cracking in an aqueous solution of zinc chloride is proposed here. An improvement in FCP resistance as the average molecular weight increases, similar to that exhibited in normal environment, appears. The shift in da/dN values over the tested range of can be approximated by an exponential function:
