Abstract
It is well known that resistance against slow crack growth is important for the lifetime of pressurized polyethylene (PE) pipes. Thus, several methods have been proposed in recent years to evaluate the long-term performance of PE using fracture mechanics. It is generally believed that this leads to results more quickly compared to internal pressure tests. In the presented research work, a method was implemented using fatigue loading of cracked round bar (CRB) specimens to characterize crack growth resistance. The method was applied to five commercially available PE pipe materials and the results were compared with the full notch creep test (FNCT). The same ranking was found with both methods, but it was obvious that fatigue crack growth (FCG) experiments were faster by up to two orders of magnitude, especially when characterizing modern (bimodal) PE types.
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