Determination and validation of the elastic moduli of small and complex biological samples: Bone and keratin in bird beaks

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 9, Issue 71, 2012, Pages 1381-1388

  Soons, Joris ^a   Herrel, Anthony ^a,b   Aerts, Peter ^a,c   Dirckx, Joris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Digital speckle pattern interferometry; Double indentation; Finite element modelling; Inverse analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BONE; ELASTIC MODULI; INDENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LOADING; SPECKLE;

BENDING EXPERIMENTS; BI-LAYERED STRUCTURE; BIOLOGICAL HYPOTHESIS; BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES; BIOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; COMPLEX NATURE; COMPLEX STRUCTURE; DIGITAL SPECKLE PATTERN INTERFEROMETRY; FE MODEL; FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING; FINITE-ELEMENT MODELS; INVERSE ANALYSIS; MATERIAL PROPERTY; OUT-OF-PLANE DISPLACEMENT;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

KERATIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEAK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; BIRD; BONE; INTERFEROMETRY; NONHUMAN; VALIDATION PROCESS; YOUNG MODULUS;

AVES; FRINGILLIDAE;

EID: 84863558941     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0667     Document Type: Article

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