July 13, 2025

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MTSE Week 5: Tensile Testing!

Dogbones at varying cook times

This week, I was finally able to determine some material properties of the bioplastic I’ve been making. As a reminder this bioplastic is intended to replace single-use plastic products in the Philippines to decrease pollution. I took samples down to the Instron machine and conducted tensile testing. I tested 13 samples, and recorded force vs. […]

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