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EVIDENCE has recently accumulated showing that when fibres of materials as chemically diverse as cellulose, polyamide, polyester, polyethylene and polypropylene are submitted to tensile strain, transverse lines, visible under the microscope, are produced1. These were at one time thought to be due to fissures, but the formation of transverse fissures in structures built up of axially oriented long chain molecules seemed improbable, nor is their formation associated with any marked loss of stress-sustaining power in the materials.
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FARROW, B., FORD, J. Transverse Markings in Strained Fibres. Nature 201, 183–184 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/201183a0
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