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The yield stress of any plastic is usually not use to describe the material because all plastics yielding stress is a function of the rate at which it is loaded and its temperature. For example if you leave something like silly putty on the corner of a table it will eventually creep over the edge of the table under its own weight, but if you cool it down to can use it to hit nails into wood. Same thing applies to poly-carbonate and other plastics just to a lesser extent.

Often the ultimate stress is used to determine if a plastic will fail but even that assumes that the plastic is a room temperature.

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