Determination of the static strength of plastics from the elasticity and internal friction characteristics

It has been shown experimentally that the tensile or compressive strengths of various plastics on a broad temperature range can be estimated from the values of the dynamic modulus of elasticity and logarithmic decrement measured by a vibration method.All-Union Scientific-Research Institute of Aviation Materials, Moscow. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 3, pp. 551–554, May–June, 1976.