Further Tensile Testing to Fully
Understand Fracture Properties of the Chicken Leg
Name: Karan
Shah
Class: BE 210
As stated in the background, the different affects of muscle on the structural and mechanical properties of the chicken leg system as a whole must be considered in this experiment. Therefore, the properties of the chicken muscle must be analyzed under different conditions. All of the muscle that the lab groups take off of the chicken legs can be assumed as having uniform properties. But how does thickness and length affect the muscle and its properties?
The following objectives must be completed in this experiment:
How does the thickness of the muscle affect the structural properties of the muscle as well? Does the thickness provide more resistance to loads? Also, does the way you measure structural properties using the Instron 4444 provide a realistic simulation of real-life situations?
How does the amount of muscle on the chicken leg change the structural properties as a whole? Each chicken leg that you receive is bound to have a different quantity of muscle and so it imperative that you understand the effects of this.
Finally, how does length of the muscle on the chicken leg affect the structural properties of the leg as whole?
The purpose of this lab is to create an understanding of the chicken leg system as a whole, through developing an understanding of its parts.