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BIOINSPIRATION & BIOMIMETICS
卷 16, 期 4, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3190/abfd7e
关键词
bioinspiration; discrete element method; segmented hard material; buckling; stability
资金
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- McGill Engineering Doctoral Award
Natural flexural armors found in nature provide a unique combination of surface hardness and flexibility, with scales that can form wrinkles and folds to accommodate large bending deformations while maintaining flexibility. Researchers are inspired by this mechanism and are exploring how rigid scales on a soft membrane can buckle and fold in a controlled way, potentially increasing the overall flexural compliance and agility of bioinspired protective elements.
Natural flexural armors combine hard, discrete scales attached to soft tissues, providing unique combinations of surface hardness (for protection) and flexibility (for unimpeded motion). Scaled skins are now inspiring synthetic protective materials which offer attractive properties, but which still suffer from limited trade-offs between flexibility and protection. In particular, bending a scaled skin with the scales on the intrados side jams the scales and stiffen the system significantly, which is not desirable in systems like gloves where scales must cover the palm side. Nature appears to have solved this problem by creating scaled skins that can form wrinkles and folds, a very effective mechanism to accommodate large bending deformations and to maintain flexural compliance. This study is inspired from these observations: we explored how rigid scales on a soft membrane can buckle and fold in a controlled way. We examined the energetics of buckling and stability of different buckling modes using a combination of discrete element modeling and experiments. In particular, we demonstrate how scales can induce a stable mode II buckling, which is required for the formation of wrinkles and which could increase the overall flexural compliance and agility of bioinspired protective elements.
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