Mechanical Design in Organisms
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Annealing (metallurgy)
Arthropod
Arthropod exoskeleton
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Bearing (mechanical)
Biodegradation
Biomaterial
Biosynthesis
Buckling
Calcite
Cartilage
Catalysis
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Cell wall
Cellulose
Chitin
Collagen
Composite material
Conformational change
Crustacean
Crystal
Cuticle
Deformation (engineering)
Deformation (mechanics)
Degree of polymerization
Degrees of freedom (mechanics)
Elastic modulus
Elasticity (physics)
Elastin
Elastomer
Engineering
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Evolution
Fracture
Fracture mechanics
Internal energy
Ligament
Linear elasticity
Materials science
Mechanical efficiency
Mechanical energy
Mechanical engineering
Microfibril
Microstructure
Molecular mass
Molecular vibration
Molecule
Multicellular organism
Organism
Physical chemistry
Piezoelectricity
Plant cell
Polymer
Polymerization
Proteoglycan
Stiffness
Strain energy
Stress-strain curve
Structural element
Structural material
Structural unit
Surface energy
Synovial fluid
Tensile structure
Tensile testing
Ultimate tensile strength
Vertebrate
Vibration
Vickers hardness test
Viscoelasticity
Vulcanization
Yield (engineering)
Young's modulus
Product details
- ISBN 9780691083087
- Weight: 624g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jul 1982
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book deals with an interface between mechanical engineering and biology. Available for the first time in paperback, it reviews biological structural materials and systems and their mechanically important features and demonstrates that function at any particular level of biological integration is permitted and controlled by structure at lower levels of integration. Five chapters discuss the properties of materials in general and those of biomaterials in particular. The authors examine the design of skeletal elements and discuss animal and plant systems in terms of mechanical design. In a concluding chapter they investigate organisms in their environments and the insights gained from study of the mechanical aspects of their lives.
