Visualizing Stress in Plastics (IMAGE)

Chemnitz University of Technology

Visualizing Stress in Plastics

Caption

The developed dye shows stress of different magnitude in plastic components. Whether this works was investigated using mechanical experiments on test specimens containing the dye.

Credit

Maximilian Raisch (Professorship of Polymer Chemistry at Chemnitz University of Technology)

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