Plastic material investment in load-bearing silk attachments in spiders.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.zool.2018.05.002
Abstract: The nature and size of attachments is a fundamental element of animal constructions. Presumably, these adhesive structures are plastically deployed to balance material investment and attachment strength. Here we studied plasticity in dragline anchorages of… read more here.
Keywords: investment; plastic material; bearing silk; investment load ... See more keywords
On instability of constitutive models for isotropic elastic-perfectly plastic material behaviour at finite deformations
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DOI: 10.1177/0954406220920687
Abstract: The main goal of this work is to test the possibility of a newly introduced constitutive law to model the behaviour of the isotropic elastic-perfectly plastic material which is exposed to large elastoplastic deformations. The… read more here.
Keywords: plastic material; isotropic elastic; model; perfectly plastic ... See more keywords