I will review some of the developments at Almaden in the area of polymer mechanical properties with particular emphasis on the work on crack propagation and fracture, adhesion and friction. These areas have the great advantage that they were partly driven by manufacturing problems but gave fundamental information on important properties of polymeric materials. Developments in some of these areas in the last few years will also be considered.

Developments in polymer adhesion and fracture at IBM Almaden Reseach Laboratory

253rd National Meeting (2017)

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