Fig. 15From: After the paint has dried: a review of testing techniques for studying the mechanical properties of artists’ paintA stress field surrounding a crack tip depicting the horizontal stresses in a gesso ground layer, indicating that the highest stresses in the ground layer are occurring at the crack tip, which is functioning as a stress concentrator. The FEA simulation used to create this stress field is based on the simulations used in Bratasz et al. [116]Back to article page