Preventing Plastic Part Failures

03/12/2015

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

The best way to avoid plastic part failure is to understand the most common causes of failure. This webinar will cover topics essential to understanding plastic failure and present information regarding how and why plastics fail.

Failure can occur because of problems associated with one or more of these key factors:

Design
Material
Processing
Installation
Service conditions

By avoiding common mistakes it is possible to produce plastic parts that have a superior chance to perform successfully.

Based on having conducted over 1550 failure investigations, a number of the most common causes of plastic failure will be reviewed in order to illustrate this point. These include:

Excessive sharp corners
Molded-in residual stressInsufficient dying of molding resin
Improper material selection
Time factors
Chemical contact

The webinar will focus on practical techniques to avoid future failures. Participants will gain a better understanding why plastic components fail, and how to avoid future failures by applying the knowledge learned.

Jeffrey A. Jansen is Senior Managing Engineer and a Partner at The Madison Group, an independent plastics engineering and consulting firm.Jeff specializes in failure analysis, material identification and selection, and aging studies for thermoplastic materials, and has been solving polymer-related problems for 23 years. In that time, he has performed over 1050 failure investigations, both for industrial clients and as a part of litigation.

Jeff served for two years as the ANTEC Technical Program Chair for the Failure Analysis and Prevention Special Interest Group.He followed that as Chairperson of FAPSIG for an additional two years. He has authored numerous articles and an ASM handbook chapter relating to failure analysis.

Jeff is a regular presenter on the SPE webinar series, 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.