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    Crazing occurs in both glazed pottery and polymers when tensile stresses exceed their ability to withstand stress. It is characterized by a spider web pattern of microcracks. In polymers, crazing begins at flaws or inhomogeneities and propagates perpendicular to the applied tension, causing whitening. It occurs because polymers have both weak van der Waals forces and stronger covalent bonds; stress overcomes the van der Waals forces to form microscopic gaps bridged by nanometer-thick fibrils. If the load increases further, the bridges break and the gaps grow into cracks.

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    Crazing occurs in both glazed pottery and polymers when tensile stresses exceed their ability to withstand stress. It is characterized by a spider web pattern of microcracks. In polymers, crazing begins at flaws or inhomogeneities and propagates perpendicular to the applied tension, causing whitening. It occurs because polymers have both weak van der Waals forces and stronger covalent bonds; stress overcomes the van der Waals forces to form microscopic gaps bridged by nanometer-thick fibrils. If the load increases further, the bridges break and the gaps grow into cracks.

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    Crazing occurs in both glazed pottery and polymers when tensile stresses exceed their ability to withstand stress. It is characterized by a spider web pattern of microcracks. In polymers, crazing begins at flaws or inhomogeneities and propagates perpendicular to the applied tension, causing whitening. It occurs because polymers have both weak van der Waals forces and stronger covalent bonds; stress overcomes the van der Waals forces to form microscopic gaps bridged by nanometer-thick fibrils. If the load increases further, the bridges break and the gaps grow into cracks.

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    Crazing occurs in both glazed pottery and polymers when tensile stresses exceed their ability to withstand stress. It is characterized by a spider web pattern of microcracks. In polymers, crazing begins at flaws or inhomogeneities and propagates perpendicular to the applied tension, causing whitening. It occurs because polymers have both weak van der Waals forces and stronger covalent bonds; stress overcomes the van der Waals forces to form microscopic gaps bridged by nanometer-thick fibrils. If the load increases further, the bridges break and the gaps grow into cracks.

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    CRAZING

    ANIKET RAIKWAR(SC17M017)
    Crazing is a glaze defect of glazed pottery.
    Characterized as a spider web pattern of cracks
    penetrating the glaze, it is caused by tensile
    stresses greater than the glaze ablilty to withstand.
    Crazing occurs in regions of
    high hydrostatic tension, or in regions of very
    localized yielding, which leads to the formation of
    interpenetrating microvoids and small fibrils.
    If an applied tensile load is sufficient, these bridges
    elongate and break, causing the microvoids to grow
    and coalesce; as microvoids coalesce, cracks begin to
    form.
    CRAZING IN POLYMERS

    Crazes form at highly stressed regions associated with


    scratches, flaws, and molecular inhomogeneities.
    Crazes generally propagate perpendicular to the
    applied tension.
    Crazing occurs mostly
    in amorphous,
    brittle polymers like
    polystyrene(PS),(PMMA)
    , and polycarbonate; it is
    typified by a whitening
    of the crazed region.
    The white colour is
    caused by light-
    scattering from the
    crazes.
    Crazing occurs in polymers, because the material is
    held together by a combination of weaker Van der
    Waals forces and stronger covalent bonds.
    Sufficient local stress overcomes the Van der Waals
    force, allowing a narrow gap. Once the slack is taken
    out of backbone chain, covalent bonds holding the
    chain together hinder further widening of the gap.
    The gaps in a craze are microscopic in size.

    Crazes can be seen because light reflects off the


    surfaces of the gaps.
    The gaps are bridged by fine filament called fibrils,
    which are molecules of the stretched backbone chain.
    The fibrils are only a few nanometers in diameter,
    and cannot be seen with a light microscope, but are
    visible with an electron microscope.
    If the applied tensile load is sufficient, these bridges
    elongate and break, causing the microvoids to grow
    and coalesce. As the microvoids coalesce, cracks begin
    to form.
    In glassy polymers, the cracks propagate with little
    craze formation resulting in low fracture toughnesses.
    A craze is different from a crack in that it can support
    a load across its face.
    Furthermore, this process of craze growth prior to
    cracking absorbs fracture energy and effectively
    increases the fracture toughness of the polymer.

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