Crack prediction of plastic housing subjected to impact loading

• Main Author: Teo, Chung Kiat
• Other Authors: Chai Gin Boay
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Manufacturing::Product engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/6519
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This report establishes a procedure or methodology to model and predict potential plastic crack on plastic housing at impact. A test rig is designed and fabricated to deliver tensile impact load to plastic tensile bar specimens and the final displacement on the plastic specimens at fracture are obta...