PolyDegrade

PolyDegrade is a web + desktop app for materials engineers to forecast how plastics and elastomers will age under real-world conditions (UV, heat, humidity, chemicals, cyclic stress). Users enter polymer grade, additives/fillers, processing notes, and exposure profile; the app outputs an estimated property-retention curve (tensile, elongation, impact) and a simple risk score with assumptions clearly stated. It also generates a test plan aligned to common standards (ASTM/ISO) to validate the prediction, and stores results to improve future estimates. This is a combination traditional + AI app: traditional physics-informed models and rules handle known mechanisms; AI helps map sparse historical lab data to likely degradation trajectories and flags out-of-distribution inputs. It’s not a magic oracle—predictions are probabilistic and only as good as the data you feed it—but it can cut weeks of trial-and-error and reduce premature field failures.