Open House 2018

For this year's Open House, Rock Mechanics put together a new demo to try to convey the idea of strain in a sample. The first task involved getting our hands on some polarizing film.

Then Rob and Mike put together a special box to look at a sample of PMMA in polarized light. In the back is just an old computer monitor actually and that new film was placed in front. Here it is unstressed (you can see residual strain from fabrication).

Rotated to a different position.

And stressed.