In the development and production of biodegradable polymer filaments, problems arise with insufficient strength and fragility of the material. All products must be tested in order to optimize the manufacturing parameters. To support the production of biodegradable materials, we have designed and produced a small device for tensile testing, which will be available during the production of filaments. The metal structure of roughness measuring device, which was no longer in use, was taken as the basis. We made a system for measuring force with a measuring cell and elongation with a camera. We performed tensile tests on filaments and printed tubes and checked whether the system complies with the ISO 527 standard, which defines the rules for measuring the tensile properties of plastics.
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