Twisting Cracks Aid Super Strength in Mantis Shrimp
Channel: Purdue Engineering
Date: 2018-06-25

Super-resilient materials found in animals like the mantis shrimp, owe their strength and toughness to a design strategy that causes cracks to follow the twisting pattern of fibers, preventing catastrophic failure.

In a recent series of papers, engineers have documented this behavior in precise detail and also are creating new composite materials modeled after the phenomenon. The work a collaboration between Purdue University and University of California, Riverside.

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Featured Purdue University Faculty:
Pablo Zavatierri, Professor, Lyles School of Civil Engineering 

Additional video credits: 
Kisailus Biomimetics and Nanostructured Materials Lab, UC Riverside 
Maya deVries, Postdoctoral Fellow at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego

Music: "Bright White" by Podington Bear via Creative Commons at  http://freemusicarchive.org

The research has been funded by the National Science Foundation through a CAREER award, the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research

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