Biomimetics: Extending nature's design of thin-wall shells with cellular cores

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 87, Issue , 2006, Pages 145-155

  Dawson, M A ^a   Gibson, L J ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomimetic; Buckling; Cellular; Compliant; Core; Cylinder; Shell; Thin; Wall

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; BONE; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CYLINDER; DESIGN; ELASTIC PROPERTY; ENGINEERING; FEATHER; OIL PLATFORM; SHELL; SPACE SHUTTLE; STEM; WALL;

ERINACEIDAE;

EID: 36148930599     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/DN060141     Document Type: Article

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