Comparative Biomechanics: Life's Physical World

By S. Vogel, Annette Ferrari. 2003

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Sap flow and sugar transport in plants (2016, background): “…Kramer and Boyer (1995), Tyree and Zimmermann (2002), Holbrook and Zwieniecki (2005), Raven, Evert, and Eichhorn (2005), Evert (2006), Nobel (2009), Taiz and Zeiger (2010), Morris et al. (2013), and Vogel (2013) for more comprehensive discussions of vascular physiology and plant biomechanics.”
Functional diversity in extreme environments: effects of locomotor style and substrate texture on the waterfall‐climbing performance of Hawaiian gobiid fishes (2006, background): “This attachment could be impeded on rough substrates where a continuous seal between the sucker and the surface might be difficult to achieve (Vogel, 2003).”
Walking on Water: Biolocomotion at the Interface (2006, background): “…deal of work has been directed toward elucidating the propulsion mechanisms of terrestrial creatures, flying birds, and swimming fish, and there have been a number of excellent recent texts devoted to the subject of biolocomotion (Alexander 2002, 2003; Biewener 2003; Denny 1993; Vogel 1994, 2003).”
Morphing in nature and beyond: a review of natural and synthetic shape-changing materials and mechanisms (2016, background): “The degree of macroscale muscle contraction varies between approximately 20–40 % [36].”
The hydrodynamics of swimming microorganisms (2008, background): “Swimming strategies employed by larger organisms that operate at high Reynolds number, such as fish, birds, or insects [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8], do not work at the small scale.”
Biological materials: Functional adaptations and bioinspired designs (2012, background): “Indispensable books on biomechanics are Biomechanics: Mechanical Properties of Living Tissues [19] and Comparative Biomechanics: Life’s Physical World [20].”
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Mathematical Models of Avascular Tumor Growth (2007, unknown): “…to note that while biological tissue is often assumed to be incompressible when modeled as elastic, in a poroelastic model the Poisson ratio corresponds to that of the drained tissue, and may be significantly less than 1 2 [111] (the effective incompressibility arising from the interstitial fluid).”
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The hierarchical structure and mechanics of plant materials (2012, background): “Vogel, S (2003) Comparative Biomechanics: Life’s Physical World. Princeton University Press. Wainwright SA, Biggs WD, Currey JD and Gosline JM (1976) Mechanical Design in Organisms. Princeton University Press. Wood Handbook: Wood as an Engineering Material (1999) Forest Products Laboratory, US Depar”
Biomimetics: lessons from nature–an overview (2009, background): “Spider silk is three times stronger than steel, having a tensile strength of approximately 1.2 GPa (Vogel 2003).”
Variable property rapid prototyping (2011, background): “The shape of matter is therefore directly linked to the influences of force acting upon it (Vogel 2003).”
Robotics in the Small, Part I: Microbotics (2007, background): “Microorganisms are able to swim at low Re using a variety of techniques that differ from our intuition about swimming at higher Re [2], [18].”