Talk:Environmental stress cracking

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A fact from Environmental stress cracking appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 April 2008, and was viewed approximately 1,711 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that environmental stress cracking accounts for around 15–30% of all plastic-component failures in service?

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Relationship to Environmental stress fracture ?

How is this topic related to Environmental stress fracture? Are they describing the same thing? Dhollm (talk) 21:10, 22 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not completely sure, but ESC seems specific to plastics, while ESF seems to be a broad range of failure mechanisms in various materials. Wizard191 (talk) 16:14, 23 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]