Elise McAbee


Elise McAbee Saunders was an American materials engineer with the United States Army.

Early life and education

McAbee was from Orange County, New York, the daughter of Daniel Hayes McAbee and Ruth E. Edgecomb McAbee. She earned a degree in chemical engineering at West Virginia University in 1942.

Career

McAbee worked in the Army's Plastics and Packaging Laboratory at Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey. She and her colleagues won the Army Research & Development Achievement Award in 1965. Her research on plastics, polymers, and adhesives was published in academic journals including The Journal of Adhesion and ''The Journal of Applied Polymer Science.''

Selected publications

  • "Use of multiple regression analysis to develop predictive models for failure times of adhesive bonds at constant stress"
  • "Failure of Adhesive Bonds at Constant Strain Rates"
  • "Application of Superposition Techniques to Thermal Degradation of Epoxide Resins"
  • "Use of a Reaction Rate Method to Predict Failure Times of Adhesive Bonds at Constant Stress"
  • "Relation between the Tensile Modulus of Propellants and the Failure Time"
  • "Prediction of Failure Times for Some Adhesive-Bonded Joints"
  • "Prediction of mechanical properties of polymers. Tensile strength of glass-reinforced plastics"
  • "Prediction of Lifetimes of Nylon Samples at Various Stress Levels"
  • "Treatment of propellant mechanical property data by reaction rate analysis"
  • "Effect of Temperature and Rate of Loading on the Tensile Properties of Glass-Reinforced Polyester"
  • "Tensile Properties of Double-Base Propellants"
  • "High-Rate Tensile Properties of Plastics"
  • "Effect of Testing Rate and Type of Machine on Tensile Properties Data for Plastics"

Personal life

Elise McAbee married John Everitt Saunders in 1973. She died in 1991, in Bexar County, Texas, aged 70 years.