Tension Piston Pencil Break (IMAGE)

Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard

Tension Piston Pencil Break

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The team showed in an object-crushing comparison between a conventional piston (air cylinder; left) and a tension piston (right) that the tension piston can produce greater forces at the same air-pressure.

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Wyss Institute at Harvard University

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