Spider orb webs rely on radial threads to absorb prey kinetic energy

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 9, Issue 73, 2012, Pages 1880-1891

  Sensenig, Andrew T ^a   Lorentz, Kimberly A ^b   Kelly, Sean P ^b   Blackledge, Todd A ^b  

^a Tabor College   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

High speed imaging; Major ampullate silk; Prey capture; Viscous dissipation

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; ENERGY ABSORPTION; ENERGY DISSIPATION; KINETIC ENERGY; SPINNING (FIBERS);

DIVERSE SPECIES; FIRST-STOP; HIGH SPEED IMAGING; HIGH-SPEED VIDEO; INSECT PREY; MAJOR AMPULLATE; MATERIAL PROPERTY; MATERIAL TESTING; PREY CAPTURE; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SELECTIVE PRESSURE; SPIDER SILKS; TOTAL WORK; VIDEO DATA; VISCOUS DISSIPATION;

SILK;

ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; ENERGY ABSORPTION; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREY; SILK; SPIDER ORB WEB;

EID: 84865087907     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0851     Document Type: Article

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