Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Cockroach(Periplaneta americana) Resilin

Resilin is a cuticular protein found in a variety of insects. It can stretch up to 300% of its natural length without any creep or relaxation. Further, it operates across a wide frequency range from 5 Hz in locomotion to 13 kHz in sound production. Both the protein sequence and composition of natura...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Choudhury, Udit
Other Authors: Engineering Science and Mechanics
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40869
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-01312012-161014/