Output details
15 - General Engineering
University of Oxford
Article title
Ballistic impact to access the high-rate behaviour of individual silk fibres
Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
Article number
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Volume number
60
Issue number
10
First page of article
1710
ISSN of journal
0022-5096
Year of publication
2012
URL
-
Number of additional authors
3
Additional information
A previously existing ballistic impact method was further developed and applied to silk fibres in order to understand their high rate behaviour. The method has been developed to also investigate the aerodynamic behaviour of fibres and webs. This has led to new research on energy absorption and dissipation in silk structures and the biological evolution of multi-functional silks (e.g. for signalling as well as prey capture). In addition, it has led to further research on the nature of wave propagation in pre-loaded fibres, with the Department of Zoology, Oxford.
Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
F - Materials and Mechanics
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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