Instron Tensile Testing:
Material Properties of Repaired Chicken Skin
Name: Neil Jikaria
Class: BE 210
The
central hypothesis is that pig skin that is repaired using the pulley stitch
will have a significantly lower elastic (Young’s) modulus than whole skin when
subjected to a tensile load. The
specific objectives of this experiment are:
·
To use specific structural properties to
determine the material properties of a biological sample.
·
To quantify the differences between repaired and
whole pig skin samples when they are subjected to a tensile load.