Instrumenting the Elmendorf Tear Test, 1999 Polymers, Laminations & Coatings Conference Proceedings

C.N. Marzinsky, A. Lustiger, S. Ling--The Elmendorf tear test is widely used to evaluate tear strength of blown and cast films. Yet, the tear strength value does not directly relate to toughness, energy, or, indeed, any other true material property. Development of structure-property relationships are very difficult when the property one attempts to measure is so ill-defined. Furthermore, the Elmendorf value does not differentiate between initiation and propagation events. In this paper we describe a setup for instrumenting the Elmendorf tear test so that the information that one derives from the test is analogous to an instrumented impact test.

Author: Marzinsky, C.N., Lustiger, A., Ling, S.
Instrumenting the Elmendorf Tear Test, 1999 Polymers, Lamina
Instrumenting the Elmendorf Tear Test, 1999 Polymers, Laminations & Coatings Conference Proceedings
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