TY - GEN A1 - Schilling, Markus T1 - Environmental Stress Cracking (ESC) of PE-HD induced by liquid media N2 - The FNCT is widely used to characterize the slow crack growth (SCG) behavior of polyolefinic materials in “inert” media as well as effects of environmental stress cracking (ESC) in which the medium has decisive influence on damage mechanism and time to failure. The test is of greatest importance for pipe and blow molding types of PE-HD - especially for transport and packaging of dangerous goods but also for most other high-performance applications. Usually the FNCT is applied as a standardized testing method (ISO 16770) using a few universal liquid media, such as solutions of Arkopal N 100. In our study, selected relevant PE-HD materials are investigated also in real media – practical formulations as well as representative pure chemicals – and influences of temperature and geometry of specimen and notch are explicitly addressed. Furthermore, the investigations comprise also the ESC behavior of PE-HD in media that are sorbed to a significant extent – one example are fuels, such as diesel and biodiesel – based on comparison with samples previously saturated with those media. Thus, also the underlying diffusion controlled sorption process has to be assessed before. The investigations were performed using a FNCT-device with 12 individual sub-stations, each equipped with individual electronic stress and temperature control and continuous online monitoring of the specimen elongation. T2 - EUROCORR 2016 CY - Montpellier, France DA - 11.09.2016 KW - Slow crack growth KW - Full-Notch Creep Test (FNCT) KW - PE-HD KW - Environmental stress cracking KW - Biodiesel PY - 2016 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/37715 AN - OPUS4-37715 AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany