What Is Environmental Stress Cracking and How To Prevent It
Engineering plastics are used in chemical environments due to their broad resistance to aggressive media. Environmental stress cracking (ESC) is one of the most common causes of plastic part failure.
This webinar provides engineers and designers with an overview of ESC (premature brittle failure caused by the combination of stress and adverse environmental conditions), plastic material selection, plastic part design, and assembly, in order to avoid costly part failures.
Webinar topics include:
- What is ESC and what causes it?
- The time-dependency of thermoplastic mechanical properties
- ESC as a form of accelerated creep rupture
- ESC mechanism: initiation, propagation
- Testing for ESC resistance
- Preventing ESC - material selection, part design, and assembly considerations
- Predictive methodologies and interpreting chemical resistance data
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Plastic Applications
Discover plastic materials with characteristics important to your application.
Operating Environments
Plastic materials are engineered to perform in the most challenging conditions including temperature, chemicals, and more.
Material Selection Tools
Tools to help you select materials by plastic properties, chemical resistance, FDA compliance, or brand.
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Materials
We carry an extensive inventory of plastic sheets, rods, tubes, film, tapes, adhesives and more from highly qualified manufacturers.
Specialized Services
We provide value for our customers with inventory programs, troubleshooting, traceability, process efficiencies, and more.
Fabrication & Machined Parts
Curbell supplies fabricated and machined plastic parts manufactured via CNC routing, milling, vacuum forming, die cutting, and more.
