THE CYCLIC CRACKED ROUND BAR TEST AS A NEW STANDARD FOR ACCELERATED MATERIAL RANKING OF POLYETHYLENE PIPE GRADES

摘要

The Cyclic Cracked Round Bar (CRB) Test has recently been standardized by ISO 18489 as a new alternative test method for an accelerated ranking of the slow crack growth performance of polyethylene pipe grades. The current paper summarizes results of this test method for several different materials. For some materials the results were compared to PENT test failure times to demonstrate the correlation between these two test methods and to emphasize the advantages of the Cyclic CRB Test.