Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Resilin

Resilin is an almost perfect elastic protein found in many insects. It can be stretched up to 300% of its resting length and is not affected by creep or stress relaxation. While much is known about the static mechanical properties of resilin, it is most often used dynamically by insects. Unfortunat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: King, Raymond John
Other Authors: Engineering Science and Mechanics
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33677
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06212010-163917/