Chitin fibre and its laminated structure of the fore-wing of beetle

High Performance Structures and Materials

Volumn 4, Issue , 2002, Pages 127-136

  Iwamoto, M ^a   Chen, J ^b   Kurashiki, K ^a   Ni, Q Q ^a  

^a KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; FRACTURE MECHANICS; LAMINATING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROTEINS; REINFORCEMENT; TRANSPORTATION;

LAMINATED STRUCTURES; MECHANICAL ANISOTROPY; REINFORCEMENT MECHANISMS;

CHITIN;

EID: 4544278534     PISSN: 14690071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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