Muscle performance in a soft-bodied terrestrial crawler: Constitutive modelling of strain-rate dependency

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 5, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 349-362

  Dorfmann, A Luis ^a   Woods Jr , William A ^b   Trimmer, Barry A ^b  

^a Tufts University   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Manduca sexta; Pseudo elasticity; Striated muscles

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; MACROMOLECULES; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MUSCLE;

CATERPILLARS; MANDUCA SEXTA; PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH; STRESS SOFTENING;

LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CATERPILLAR; FORCE; HYSTERESIS; MACROMOLECULE; MANDUCA SEXTA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE STRAIN; MUSCLE STRETCHING; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; STRESS DEFORMATION RESPONSE; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TOBACCO; WORKLOAD;

MANDUCA; MANDUCA SEXTA;

EID: 38349106478     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2007.1076     Document Type: Article

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