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Does polystyrene exhibit yielding

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16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

No, pure Polystyrene (PS) is quite brittle; hence, General Purpose Polystyrene (GPPS) does not yield. It breaks right after passing over its limit. However, the weakness of polystyrene, which is brittleness, is overcome when it is made into High Impact Polystyrene (HIPS). Having a higher breaking strain after polymerization, it is able to yield before breaking. Thus, from this tensile testing experiment, GPPS does not have yield strength, while HIPS has yield strength of 26.175N/mm2.

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