An experimental investigation of the stability of a fibre embedded in a soft gel
This Final Year Project aims to experimentally investigate how the stability of fibres embedded in a soft gel is affected by the stiffness of the soft gel. The student conducted a series of experiments to test the stability by fabricating soft gels of various stiffness and fibres using easily obt...
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| Format: | Final Year Project |
| Language: | English |
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Nanyang Technological University
2024
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177698 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | This Final Year Project aims to experimentally investigate how the stability of fibres embedded
in a soft gel is affected by the stiffness of the soft gel. The student conducted a series of
experiments to test the stability by fabricating soft gels of various stiffness and fibres using
easily obtainable household items and testing the buckling of the fibre when subjected to axial
compressive loads. From the experimental results, the critical buckling load as well as the
buckling shapes for the fibres embedded in different concentrations of soft gel was obtained
and analysed.
Conclusions drawn using the findings in this project will help in furthering the understanding
of fibre-gel composites and ways in which strength of the composite can be maximised while
maintaining stability. Fibre-gel composites are used heavily in biomedical and manufacturing
industries. More specifically, some applications for which this study would help includes
deriving the Extracellular Matrix (ECM) that acts as a scaffold for tissue engineering as well as
using these results to create a lighter but stronger fibre embedded polymer material. |
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