Radular teeth as models for the improvement of industrial cutting devices

Materials Science and Engineering C

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 129-142

  Van Der Wal, Paul ^a   Giesen, Huub J ^b   Videler, John J ^c  

^a NL 1788 RS   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acoustic microscopy; Biominerals; Electron microscopy; Finite element analysis; Mollusca; Radula

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038957305     PISSN: 09284931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0928-4931(99)00129-0     Document Type: Article

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