A Mechanical Model for the Adhesion of Spiders to Nominally Flat Surfaces

Journal of Bionic Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 135-142

  Gasparetto, Alessandro ^a   Seidl, Tobias ^b   Vidoni, Renato ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

bionics; dry adhesion; hierarchical structure; mechano elastic model; spider

Indexed keywords

ANTI-BUNCHING; BIOLOGICAL DATA; DRY ADHESION; FLAT SURFACES; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; MECHANICAL MODEL; MECHANO-ELASTIC MODEL; SIMULATION RESULT; SPIDER;

ANIMALS; BIOMIMETICS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

ADHESION;

EID: 67649792244     PISSN: 16726529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1672-6529(08)60110-9     Document Type: Article

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