Print Email Facebook Twitter Environmental stress cracking of PVC and PVC-CPE - Part I Crazing Title Environmental stress cracking of PVC and PVC-CPE - Part I Crazing Author Breen, J. Kunstoffen en Rubber Instituut TNO Publication year 1993 Abstract The craze initiation of PVC and PVC-CPE in a number of vapour and liquid environments was studied. The observed decrease in the craze-initiation stress could be ascribed to the absorption of components by the PVC and the PVC-CPE matrix. The magnitude of the absorption depends on the activity of the components and on their interaction with the PVC matrix. The activity of the components was defined according to thermodynamics. The interaction of the components can be obtained from measurements of the angle of contact, though it is preferred to quantify this interaction by absorption experiments. A simple model is presented to predict the long-term craze-initiation stress of PVC in environments. © 1993 Chapman & Hall. Subject AbsorptionCrack propagationCrazingPolymersStress analysisSurface tensionSwellingAngle contactPlasticizationStress crackingPolyvinyl chlorides To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:35b02c61-bea7-454a-ba20-c92e938da2ad DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00353177 TNO identifier 232057 Publisher Kluwer Academic Publishers ISSN 0022-2461 Source Journal of Materials Science, 28 (14), 3769-3776 Document type article Files To receive the publication files, please send an e-mail request to TNO Library.