Investigation of mechanical properties of tibia and femur articulations of insect joints with different joint functions Academic Article

abstract

• Copyright Materials Research Society 2019. Insects have more than a million described species and represent more than half of all known living organisms. However, little is known about the operation and functions of the insect body, particularly their remarkable leg joints. This study is focused on partly filling this knowledge gap by using nanoindentation instruments to characterize the mechanical properties of leg joints from three different insects: a beetle, a mantis, and a dragonfly nymph. For all insect species, the tibia joint had the largest effective elastic moduli, followed by the femur joint, while the exocuticle had the smallest values.

authors

• Akbulut, Mustafa
• Behmer, Spencer

published proceedings

• MRS COMMUNICATIONS

author list (cited authors)

• Oh, J. K., Behmer, S. T., Marquess, R., Scholar, E. A., & Akbulut, M.

citation count

• 2

complete list of authors

• Oh, Jun Kyun||Behmer, Spencer T||Marquess, Richelle||Scholar, Ethan A||Akbulut, Mustafa

publication date

• January 2019

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

published in

• MRS Communications  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1557/mrc.2019.71

start page

• 900

end page

• 903

volume

• 9

issue

• 3

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1557/mrc.2019.71