Cold-drawn material as model material for the environmental stress cracking (ESC) phenomenon in polyethylene. A raman spectroscopy study of molecular stress induced by macroscopic strain in drawn polyethylenes and their relation to environmental stress cracking

Macromolecules

Volumn 31, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 5845-5852

  Lagarón, José M ^a   Dixon, N Michael ^b   Gerrard, Don L ^b   Reed, Warren ^b   Kip, Bert J ^a  

^a DSM RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAWING (FORMING); ELASTIC MODULI; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; STRAIN; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRESS RELAXATION;

COLD DRAWING; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS CRACKING; MOLECULAR STRESS;

POLYETHYLENES;

EID: 0032137471     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma9717606     Document Type: Article

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