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Creep Failure: Prediction and Prevention Strategies

Creep Failure: Prediction and Prevention Strategies
Language: English
Length: 90 min
Jun 26, 2025 02:30 PM
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Course Description

Solve 20% of your plastics failures by easily detecting creep origin and prioritizing your solving efforts right from the start. 

Jeffrey A. Jansen will help you understand how creep failure can slowly affect your plastics parts & how you can best use test methods, prediction techniques to your own projects (using real life cases) for more robust plastic parts that survive longer in service.

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Jeffrey A Jansen
Jeffrey A Jansen
The Madison Group
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Jeffrey A. Jansen is the Engineering Manager and a Partner at The Madison Group, an independent plastics engineering and consulting firm. Jeff is a proven plastic professional with more than 30 years of experience solving problems and addressing opportunities related to polymeric materials. He specializes in failure analysis, material identification and selection, as well as compatibility, aging, and lifetime prediction studies for thermoplastic materials. Jeff has performed over 5,000 investigations, both for industrial clients and as a part of litigation. He regularly presents live seminars and webinars covering a wide range of topics related to plastics failure, material performance, testing, and polymer technology. Jeff is a graduate of Carroll College and the Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Why should you view this course?

20% of plastics failures occur due to creep. Surprisingly, the effect of time & temperature on plastic parts is missing in most failure analysis studies, and that's the only way to detect creep rupture. Without noticing the origin of creep in plastic parts, people may not be able to relate their part failure to creep and end up focusing their solving efforts on the wrong factor...

  1. Save time & efforts in solving creep failure by extracting relevant info (useful lifetime, creep properties, thermal stability...) from your test results.

  2. Wisely optimize your plastics part-design by understanding the effect of different factors influencing creep rupture (plastic type/formation, stress type & magnitude, temperature, design features...).

  3. Extend the lifetime of your plastics products in a service application with real-life case studies on creep failure prediction & prevention strategies.

Who should join this course?

  • Manufacturers of plastic parts, materials engineers, plastic part designers, quality engineers selecting or specifying plastic materials for an application.

  • Complete the course and (unlock your personalized certificate)– your badge of accomplishment awaits!

  • This course is suitable for intermediate level proficiency
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Course Outline

Viscoelasticity - Fundamental Behavior of Plastics

Introduction to Creep Rupture

  • Creep Failure Mechanism

Generalizations of Creep

  • Factors that affect the creep performance of plastic materials
  • Identify creep when you see it!

Creep Testing

  • Analytical techniques used to understand the creep performance of a plastic
  • Assess the useful lifetime of a plastic material in a service application

Prevention Strategies

Real-life Case Studies involving failures due to creep and setting up effective prevention measures

  • Button caps
  • Hex caps
  • Tip up
  • Industrial fan
  • Sensor
  • Electrical connector

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