Assessing the proportion of cork that a stopper should have from a mechanical perspective
Submitted by María Pasalodos on 26 December 2019The objective of this study is to determine the proportion of cork that micro-agglomerated and synthetic cork stoppers should contain to assure that their mechanical properties are similar to those of a natural cork stopper. The properties that characterize the mechanical behaviour of the stoppers in the corking and uncorking operations are: compression, relaxation and extraction.