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Fig. 5

From: After the paint has dried: a review of testing techniques for studying the mechanical properties of artists’ paint

Fig. 5

Plot showing elastic modulus (MPa) vs aging time (years) from uniaxial tensile tests of oil, alkyd, and acrylic paints. The graph does not account for testing variables such as T, RH, solvent exposure, or pigment/particle type used in the paint medium, contributing for the wide spread of the modulus data. Data compiled in this graph are from [15, 18, 19, 28, 30, 33,34,35,36,37, 39, 41,42,43, 46,47,48,49,50,51, 54, 55, 58, 60, 61]

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