In situ three-dimensional spider web construction and mechanics

Spiders are nature’s engineers that build lightweight and high-performance web architectures often several times their size and with very few supports; however, little is known about web mechanics and geometries throughout construction, especially for three-dimensional (3D) spider webs. In this work...

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Main Authors: Su, Isabelle, Narayanan, Neosha, Logrono, Marcos A, Guo, Kai, Bisshop, Ally, Mühlethaler, Roland, Saraceno, Tomás, Buehler, Markus J
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/132729