The Stomatopod Dactyl Club: A Formidable Damage-Tolerant Biological Hammer
By J. Weaver, Garrett W. Milliron, Ali Miserez, K. Evans-Lutterodt, Steven A Herrera, Isaías Gallana, W. Mershon, Brooke A. Swanson, Pablo D. Zavattieri, E. DiMasi and 1 more. Science, 2012
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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ocean Engineering
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- Strong and Tough Bioinspired Additive-Manufactured Dual-Phase Mechanical Metamaterial Composites (2021, background): “…et al., 2018); for example, the stomatopod dactyl club of “ smasher-type ” mantis shrimp features a Bouligand-type (twisted plywood) structure (Weaver, 2012), with newly identified randomly distributed voids between the chitin fibers and protein matrix (Yin et al., 2020), which creates a…”
- Damage tolerance of bio-inspired helicoidal composites under low velocity impact (2017, background): “The micro and macro mechanical features of dactyl clubs reveal a range of impact-resisting characteristics not seen in other damagetolerant bio-composites such as shells [8, 9].”
- Controlling toughness and strength of FDM 3D-printed PLA components through the raster layup (2020, background): “As part of our future research we want to extend these studies to multiaxial loading, considering helicoidal fiber architectures which have been found to provide highly improved damage tolerance in the cuticles of different animals [20,21].”
- A review of impact resistant biological and bioinspired materials and structures (2020, background): “fronts twist as they propagate creating larger fracture surfaces which absorb more energy than flat cracks [77].”