Dynamics of digging in wet soil

Numerous animals live in, and locomote through, subsea soils. To move in a medium dominated by frictional interactions, many of these animals have adopted unique burrowing strategies. This paper presents a burrowing model inspired by the Atlantic razor clam (Ensis directus), which uses deformations...

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Main Authors: Jung, Sunghwan (Author), Hosoi, Anette E. (Contributor), Winter, Amos G. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Hatsopoulos Microfluids Laboratory (Contributor), Winter, Amos (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier B.V., 2013-05-01T15:26:05Z.
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