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Industry requires methods able to quickly characterize the environmental stress cracking (ESC) resistance of polymeric materials for R and D and quality control purposes. None of the available standards is completely satisfactory and their reliability is often not sufficient. In this paper the fracture mechanics (FM) approach has been successfully applied to characterize the ESC behaviour of two different...