Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Resilin
Resilin is an almost perfect elastic protein found in many insects. It can be stretched up to 300% of its resting length and is not affected by creep or stress relaxation. While much is known about the static mechanical properties of resilin, it is most often used dynamically by insects. Unfortunat...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33677 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06212010-163917/ |