Failure of Polymer Products Due to Thermo-Oxidation

Author: D.W. Wright
Published: 2001
Number of Pages: 132 (This is a soft-backed is from the Rapra Review Reports, Vol. 11, No. 11, Report 131.)

The combined effects of oxidising media and heat result in degradation by thermo-oxidation. The principles and cases described in this review emphasise long term degradation in service, but it is also observed that in-service durability is dependent upon degradation accumulated during processing. Two additional phenomena that influence thermo-oxidation are also described: catalysis by certain metal ions, and the influence of stress. Various categories of heat stabilising additives are described. An additional indexed section containing several hundred abstracts from the Rapra Polymer Library database gives useful references for further reading.

Author / Editor Details: During his thirty years with Rapra, Dr. Wright specialised in the failure of plastics materials and products, researching into critical issues of materials durability, such as creep, fatigue and environmental stress cracking. He published around ninety technical papers and three books, and was involved in the diagnosis of some five thousand product failures, making him a leading expert in this field.

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