Veins improve fracture toughness of insect wings

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Dirks, Jan Henning ^a   Taylor, David ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORELIMB; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; INSECT; LIMB FRACTURE; LOCUST; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NONHUMAN; SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA; VEIN;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; GRASSHOPPERS; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL PROCESSES; MEMBRANES; WING;

EID: 84865154936     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043411     Document Type: Article

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