Breaking Bones through Torsion

 

Name: Allison Roeser

Class: BE 210

 

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The central hypothesis for this experiment is that the failure stress will be the same in chicken legs and wings.  However, a sub-aim is to study the impact that radius has on the torsion force that is required to break a bone. It is hypothesized the torsion need to reach the failure stress will increase as the radius of the bone increases.  Therefore, chicken legs will require a higher torsion force to break than chicken wings will.