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Low Temperature Properties of Polymers

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Most plastics at room temperature show their familiar properties of flexibility (a low Young's modulus) and high resistance to cracking but when the temperature decreases this can change rapidly and many common plastics become brittle with low failure stresses.

Low temperatures can be more harmful to plastics than high temperatures. Catastrophic failures can occur if materials selection does not take account of the low temperature properties of plastics.

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