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Crazing and fracture of glassy plastics |
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| Authors: | A N Gent |
| Institution: | Institute of Polymer Science, The University of Akron , Akron , Ohio |
| Abstract: | A recently proposed mechanism of crazing in glassy plastics is reviewed and then extended to account for the observed structure of crazes, for the tensile properties of the crazed material, and for the effect of rate of loading upon the crazing process. |
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