PLANE STRESS RAPID FRACTURE RESISTANCE OF PIPE GRADE PE: ESTIMATION FROM TENSILE DRAWING DATA

摘要

The Rapid Crack Propagation regime in pressurised polyethylene pipe is limited by a critical temperature, which is determined mainly by the increasing resistance of the material to plane stress fracture. The Reversed Charpy and ASTM F2231 'Thin Charpy' test methods are designed to index this property, at appropriately high rates, for quality control and material development purposes. This paper demonstrates that equivalent information can be derived from a procedure based on basic tensile drawing tests, via material properties which are more accessible to material design.