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RECENT investigations of failure of rubbers and plastics have indicated that hysteresial losses in a polymer are an important factor in fracture1–8. This communication reports experimental evidence that the energy density at break of a polymer is simply related to the hysteresis loss in the polymer.
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GROSCH, K., HARWOOD, J. & PAYNE, A. Breaking Energy of Rubbers. Nature 212, 497 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/212497a0
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