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Practical: Determining the Tensile Strength of Plant Fibres

  • The tensile strength of a fibre refers to the maximum load it can carry before breaking

    • For example, this information would be important when determining the strength of a rope made of plant fibres

Apparatus

  • Plant fibres

  • Retort stand (clamp stand)

  • Clamp

  • Weights

Method

  • The fibre should be attached to a clamp stand

  • Attach a weight on the other end of the plant fibre

  • Carefully continue to add one weight at a time until the fibre breaks

  • Record the mass at which the fibre broke

  • This represents the tensile strength

  • To increase the accuracy of your results, this process should be repeated with more samples of the same plant fibre

    • These values can be used to calculate the mean tensile strength for the fibre

    • It is important to ensure that the fibres are all of the same length and that all other variables are kept constant

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Apparatus used to determine the tensile strength of plant fibres

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