10-21-2020, 08:34 PM
https://news.sky.com/story/near-indestru...r-12110360
The key to making stronger buildings and planes could lie in the anatomy of a crush-resistant insect that can survive being run over by a car, scientists have found.
To understand the secret behind the impressive strength of the inch-long diabolical ironclad beetle, researchers tested how much squishing it could take - and discovered it could handle about 39,000 times its own weight.
The study, led by engineers at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and Purdue University, found the insect has two armour-like elytron that meet at a line, called a suture, which runs through the abdomen.
This unusual structure is layered and pieced together like a jigsaw, said Purdue civil engineer Pablo Zavattieri, who was part of a group of researchers that used CT scans to inspect the insect and run it over with a car.
The exoskeleton is thought to be one of the toughest structures known to exist in the animal kingdom.
Well, I do hope the insect wasn't alive when it was run over with a car !
Either way, it's fascinating that the shell structure did such a great job of protecting the insect. I wonder how we could use this knowledge to protect ourselves and our property?
The key to making stronger buildings and planes could lie in the anatomy of a crush-resistant insect that can survive being run over by a car, scientists have found.
To understand the secret behind the impressive strength of the inch-long diabolical ironclad beetle, researchers tested how much squishing it could take - and discovered it could handle about 39,000 times its own weight.
The study, led by engineers at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and Purdue University, found the insect has two armour-like elytron that meet at a line, called a suture, which runs through the abdomen.
This unusual structure is layered and pieced together like a jigsaw, said Purdue civil engineer Pablo Zavattieri, who was part of a group of researchers that used CT scans to inspect the insect and run it over with a car.
The exoskeleton is thought to be one of the toughest structures known to exist in the animal kingdom.
Well, I do hope the insect wasn't alive when it was run over with a car !
Either way, it's fascinating that the shell structure did such a great job of protecting the insect. I wonder how we could use this knowledge to protect ourselves and our property?
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