Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2016, 64(1), 159-164 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201664010159

Tensile Strength of the Eggshell Membranes

Jana Strnková1, ©árka Nedomová1, Vojtěch Kumbár2, Jan Trnka3
1 Department of Food Technology, Faculty of AgriSciences, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic
2 Department of Technology and Automobile Transport, Faculty of AgriSciences, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic
3 Institute of Thermomechanics, Czech Academy of Science, Dolejąkova 5, 182 00 Praha, Czech Republic

The mechanical behaviour of eggshell membranes under tensile loading has been studied. Samples from different bird species (hen, goose and Japanese quail) have been used. Samples were cut out of the membrane in latitudinal direction. TIRAtest 27025 tensile testing machine equipped with a 200 N load-cell was used. Tensile deformation exhibits both non-linear as well as linear region. The experiments were performed at five loading velocities 1, 10, 100, 400 and 800 mm.min-1. The main parameters describing the eggshell strength increase with the loading rate. This dependence exhibits the same qualitative features as the rate dependence of the eggshell strength.

Keywords: eggshell membrane, tensile test, loading rate, tensile strength, fracture strain
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The authors would like to acknowledge the support of IP 17/2014 IGA MENDELU and of the Institute of Thermomechanics AS CR, v. v. i. of the Czech Academy of Sciences through institutional support No. RVO: 61388998.

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Strnková, J., Nedomová, ©., Kumbár, V., & Trnka, J. (2016). Tensile Strength of the Eggshell Membranes. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 64(1), 159-164. doi: 10.11118/actaun201664010159
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