Fast brittle fracture of plastic pipes Part 3 - Materials and processing

Plastics, Rubber and Composites Processing and Applications

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 404-411

  Greenshields, C J ^a   Davis, P ^a   Leevers, P S ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE FRACTURE; COOLING; EXTRUSION; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; MECHANICAL TESTING; POLYETHYLENES; PRESSURE EFFECTS; PROCESSING; RESIDUAL STRESSES; TEMPERATURE; TENSILE TESTING; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

BRITTLE TOUGH TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; EXTRUSION COOLING; STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES; TORSION TEST;

PLASTIC PIPE;

EID: 0031346453     PISSN: 09598111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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