Critical Timescales for Burrowing in Undersea Substrates via Localized Fluidization, Demonstrated by RoboClam: A Robot Inspired by Atlantic Razor Clams

Critical Timescales for Burrowing in Undersea Substrates via Localized Fluidization, Demonstrated by RoboClam: A Robot Inspired by Atlantic Razor Clams

The Atlantic razor clam (Ensis directus) burrows into underwater soil by using motions of its shell to locally fluidize the surrounding substrate. The energy associated with movement through fluidized soil - characterized by a depth-independent density and viscosity - scales linearly with depth. In...

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Main Authors: Winter, Amos G. (Contributor), Deits, Robin Lloyd Henderson (Contributor), Dorsch, Daniel S. (Contributor)
Other Authors: MIT-SUTD Collaboration Office (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017-05-22T16:29:46Z.
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