
331Testing of Industrial Textiles
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stiffness, hardness, impact, creep, fatigue, and corrosion. In addition, these
properties will change with temperature and perhaps strain rate, particularly
for polymeric composites.
Evaluation of composite materials may be further subdivided into destruc-
tive and nondestructive. In destructive testing, tests are carried out to the
specimen’s failure, in order to understand a specimen’s structural perfor-
mance or material behavior under different loads. These tests are generally
much easier to carry out, yield more information, and are easier to interpret
than nondestructive testi ...