Figure 6
(a) Normal strain components , plotted as a function of distance along the central axis. The uncertainties are one standard deviation. The sawtooth pattern can be interpreted as the presence of a strain gradient along the central axis (see Fig. 8). (b) The strain pattern translated to the normal stress components, showing a similar response. The right-hand y axis shows the corrected stress values after taking into account the uncertainty in the calibration measurement. The last stress value is around 100 MPa. |