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In the majority of applications of polymers, we are interested in one or more of three basic mechanical properties-stiffness, strength and toughness. To these can be added creep, which becomes important in many engineering applications. Stiffness represents resistance to deformation, and is a much simpler property than strength and toughness, which relate to failure. Strength is the ultimate stress which a material can withstand, before it fails, whether by fracture or by excessive deformation, whilst toughness represents the work required to fracture a material
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Holliday, L. (1975). The Stiffness of Polymers in Relation to Their Structure. In: Ward, I.M. (eds) Structure and Properties of Oriented Polymers. Materials Science Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9803-8_7
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