Results: Measuring the thermal expansivity of polycarbonate
For the aluminium-polycarbonate bi-material strip the following measurements were made
From equation (3) the curvature
From equation (6), the misfit strain
And so, from equation (5)
So the thermal expansivity of the polycarbonate material is 4.5 x 10-5 K-1.
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