Abstract: | Polyamides have been tested in cyclic bending to determine the effect of certain plasticizers, plasticizing conditions, diffusion stabilization, and aging on the mechanism and energy of fatigue fracture. The fracture surfaces of the most typical plasticized specimens are analyzed. The optimal conditions of diffusion stabilization of polyamides with quinhydrone, giving a considerable improvement in antifatigue properties, are selected.Institute of the Physicotechnical Problems of Power Engineering, Academy of Sciences of the Lithuanian SSR, Kaunas. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 693–697, July–August, 1968. |