Failure of your product in
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Plastic will continue to deform under constant load over time. Creep testing is configured to track this deformation.
PELabs has the knowledge and experience necessary to design around "creep" problems. The following is a synopsis of a Case Study of bucket buckling:
PELabs was retained by a major manufacturer of one-gallon paint containers to assess the performance of various polypropylenes in resisting collapse of containers under the weight of layers of other filled containers. Containers are stacked three to five pallets high, resulting in approximate compressive loads of 163 to 276 lbs, respectively, on units in the bottom layer. A typical polypropylene (PP) container has crush resistance exceeding 500 lbs in a one-inch per minute, constant cross-head rate test, yet, for some materials, bottom layers collapse in storage within a few weeks.
To read the entire Case Study , click here. You may also be interested in Dr. Brockway's article Taking the Mystery Out of Creep, which can be downloaded by clicking here.
Let Plastics Engineering Labs help with solving your problems and designing your plastic products.
About Plastics Engineering Labs
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Plastics Engineering Laboratories is a group of mechanical, electrical, optical, and chemical engineers with over a century of experience in developing plastic products and helping establish them in the marketplace. During our 20 plus years in business, we've helped clients of all sizes develop a variety of products — from garbage bags and paint buckets to jet_engine o_rings and safety syringes; from fiber_optic connectors to sigmoidoscopes and endoscopes. PELabs provides outsourced design, development, and engineering assistance to product designers and managers. We can flexibly plug into the lifecycle of a product at any stage: * Conception * Design * Development * Qualification * Production * Service PELabs' resources include: * a broadly experienced, well-educated
engineering Staff * full-service plastics testing capacity * a pool of Associates from a wide range of backgrounds
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