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Fracture Fundamentals: A Cheesy Analog

This activity has students make small cuts in processed cheese food and then apply shear stress perpendicular or parallel to the cuts to see what sort of fracturing will occur.

Keywords:: NSDL, Deformation Mechanisms, Fabrics, Education, Microstructures, Demonstrations

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Science and Technology / Geoscience

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Material Type:: Simulation
Date Added to MERLOT:: July 27, 2016
Date Modified in MERLOT:: July 27, 2016
Author:: Unknown (Know the author?)
Submitter:: Barbra Bied Sperling

Primary Audience:: College Lower Division
Technical Format:: Website
Mobile Compatibility:: Not specified at this time
Language:: English
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Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States