Accelerated creep testing of polymers using the stepped isothermal method

Polymer Testing

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 447-454

  Achereiner, Frédéric ^a   Engelsing, Kurt ^a   Bastian, Martin ^a   Heidemeyer, Peter ^a  

^a SKZ Das Kunststoff Zentrum   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accelerated testing; Long term creep behavior; Stepped isothermal method; Time temperature superposition principle

Indexed keywords

100 YEARS; ACCELERATED CREEPS; ACCELERATED TEST METHODS; ACCELERATED TESTING; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; CREEP EXPERIMENTS; DEVELOPMENT STAGES; ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; GEOSYNTHETICS; LONG TERM CREEP; LONG-TERM BEHAVIOR; MASTER CURVE; PRODUCT TESTING; REPRODUCIBILITIES; STEPPED ISOTHERMAL METHODS; TEST METHOD; TIME-TEMPERATURE SUPERPOSITION PRINCIPLES;

CREEP; GEOSYNTHETIC MATERIALS; ISOTHERMS; MECHANICS; POLYMERS; POLYPROPYLENES; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

CREEP TESTING;

EID: 84874607160     PISSN: 01429418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymertesting.2013.01.014     Document Type: Article

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