date-created: '2024-02-05'
date-updated: '2026-01-08'
manifest-author:
    name: Appropedia
    email: admin@appropedia.org
title: 'Open-Source Flexible Materials Tensile Testing Apparatus'
description: 'Alternative food sources are essential in both low-resource settings and during emergencies like abrupt sunlight reduction scenarios. Seaweed presents a promising option but requires investigation into the viability of unconventionally sourced ropes for harvesting. In this regard, a low-cost reliable method to test the tensile strength of rope is needed to validate alternative materials for use in harvesting seaweed. Commercial rope testing jigs alone range in price from several thousand to tens of thousands of dollars, so there is interest in developing a lower-cost alternative. Addressing these needs, this article reports on an open-source design for tensile strength rope testing hardware.'
intended-use: 'Tensile testing'
keywords:
    - rope
    - 'rope testing'
    - 'alternative ropes'
    - 'tensile strength'
    - 'rope tensile strength'
    - 'seaweed production'
    - seaweed
    - 'open hardware'
    - 'open source hardware'
project-link: 'https://www.appropedia.org/Open-Source_Flexible_Materials_Tensile_Testing_Apparatus'
contact:
    name: Woods
    social:
        platform: Appropedia
        user-handle: Woods
version: 8
development-stage: Designed
made: false
image: 'https://www.appropedia.org/w/images/0/09/Ga_tensile.png'
license:
    documentation: CC-BY-SA-4.0
licensor:
    name: Woods
    affliation: FAST
    contact: 'https://www.appropedia.org/Woods'
documentation-home: 'https://www.appropedia.org/Open-Source_Flexible_Materials_Tensile_Testing_Apparatus'
documentation-language: en