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In the Laboratory
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Polymer Mechanical Properties via a New Laboratory Tensile Tester
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T. Carter Gilmer and Matthew Williams
University of Michigan-Dearborn, 4901 Evergreen Road, Dearborn, MI 48128-1491
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November 1996
Vol. 73 No. 11
p. 1062
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A laboratory tensile testing device has been developed, which allows quick and inexpensive measurements of tensile properties of polymeric materials in a uni-axial mode. The device is mostly for instructive purposes and is not necessarily precise enough to collect research mechanical property data. But it is excellent to expose students, in a hands-on fashion, to measuring properties and understanding terms, such as , modulus or stiffness, tensile strength, strain, stress/strain plots, Poisson's ratio, yield, etc. These properties are fairly common to material scientists, mechanical engineers, physicists, polymer chemists, but generally not traditional chemists(non-polymer).
As written, this experiment and the associated device can be used extensively as an active laboratory experience to teach stress/strain fundamentals.
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Gilmer, T. Carter; Williams, Matthew. J. Chem. Educ. 1996 73 1062.
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Polymer Chemistry
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February 21, 2006
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