Fruit walls and nut shells as an inspiration for the design of bio-inspired impact resistant hierarchically structured materials

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 138, Issue , 2010, Pages 421-430

  Seidel, R ^a   Thielen, M ^a   Schmitt, C ^a   Buhrig Polaczek A ^b   Fleck, C ^c   Speck, T ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d Competence Networks Biomimetics and BIOKON ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

biomimetics; citrus maxima; cocos nucifera; energy dissipation; gradual open pore foam; Macadamia sp.

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRY; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FRUIT; MIMICRY; NUT;

CITRUS MAXIMA; COCOS NUCIFERA; MACADAMIA;

EID: 78449302473     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/DN100371     Document Type: Article

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