Design and mechanical properties of insect cuticle.

By Julian F. V. Vincent, U. Wegst. Arthropod structure & development, 2004

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Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Automotive Engineering, Mechanics of Materials

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Poriferan Chitin as a Versatile Template for Extreme Biomimetics (2015, positive): “Since chitin nanofibers have an antiparallel extended crystal structure, they have high mechanical strength and Young's modulus, which is even higher than 150 GPa [110] [121].”
Discovery of a honeycomb structure in the twisted plywood patterns of fibrous biological nanocomposite tissue (2005, background): “The second structural level is the arrangement of 18–25 polysaccharide molecular chains in the form of narrow and long crystalline units, which are wrapped by proteins, forming nanofibrils of about 2–5 nm diameter and about 300 nm length [13,14].”
The Integument of Water-walking Arthropods: Form and Function (2007, background): “Vincent and Wegst , 2004 ) ; developmental entomologists have considered the changes prompted by growth of the cuticle ( e . g .”
Structural Analysis of a Dragonfly Wing (2010, methodology): “We further took an average vein stiffness of 6 GPa [12], and for the membrane stiffness we took a value of 3.75 GPa [ 24 ].”
Biomimetics: its practice and theory (2006, background): “In insect cuticle, the main variety of function is achieved by making complex composites with anything up to 10 constituents and a range of properties (like Young's modulus), thus covering several orders of magnitude with a single material (Vincent & Wegst 2004).”
The crustacean exoskeleton as an example of a structurally and mechanically graded biological nanocomposite material (2005, background): “In their papers on the arthropod cuticle Vincent [4,36,37] and Vincent and Wegst [3] have discussed the contributions of the different phases occurring in such plywood-type composites, namely, that of the fibrous crystalline chitin phase, of the stiffened protein matrix, and of the calcium minerals.”
Progress on ‘pico’ air vehicles (2012, background): “In order to match the inertial effects relative to the inertia of the wing would require a wing material three orders of magnitude more dense than insect cuticle (1– 1.3 × 106 g/m3 (Vincent and West, 2004)), requiring a density of approximately 1 × 109 g/m3.”
Biological materials: Functional adaptations and bioinspired designs (2012, background): “The tensile strength of femoral cuticle in locust is 60–200 MPa and the failure strain is as high as 5% [409].”