Measuring Polypropylene and Nylon Suture Displacement During Uniaxial Tension
Class: BE 210
Name: Gina Cheng
The proposed project will determine whether the suture material
affects the amount of strain of a sample, assuming the testing conditions are
the same: suturing technique (running locked), number of sutures per unit of
length (6 sutures per 2 cm), suture diameter (0.1 mm), and load applied (static,
1-kg weight). It is hypothesized that
the strain of the samples sutured with 100% polypropylene thread will be
significantly different from that of the samples sutured with 100% nylon
thread. The new polypropylene thread
data set will be compared to the original nylon thread data set in order to
test this hypothesis.