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A wrinkle in flight: the role of elastin fibres in the mechanical behaviour of bat wing membranes

Bats fly using a thin wing membrane composed of compliant, anisotropic skin. Wing membrane skin deforms dramatically as bats fly, and its three-dimensional configurations depend, in large part, on the mechanical behaviour of the tissue. Large, macroscopic elastin fibres are an unusual mechanical ele...

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Publicado en:J R Soc Interface
Main Authors: Cheney, Jorn A., Konow, Nicolai, Bearnot, Andrew, Swartz, Sharon M.
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: The Royal Society 2015
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4424667/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25833238
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2014.1286
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