Mechanical Design in Organisms / / Stephen A. Wainwright.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Wainwright, Stephen A.,
• MitwirkendeR: Biggs, W. D.,; Currey, J. D.,; Gosline, J. M.,; Wainwright, S. A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©1982
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (423 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Acknowledgement --; Contents --; List of symbols --; Chapter 1. Introduction --; Part I. Materials --; Chapter 2A. Principles of the strength of materials: Phenomenological description --; Chapter 2B. Principles of the strength of materials: Molecular interpretation --; Chapter 3. Tensile materials --; Chapter 4. Pliant materials --; Chapter 5. Rigid materials --; Chapter 6. Elements of structural systems --; Chapter 7. Support in organisms --; Part III. Ecomechanics --; Chapter 8. Ecological mechanics --; References-Author index --; Subject Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691218090; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691218090?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Stephen A. Wainwright.

This book deals with an interface between mechanical engineering and biology. Available for the first time in paperback, it reviews biological structural materials and systems and their mechanically important features and demonstrates that function at any particular level of biological integration is permitted and controlled by structure at lower levels of integration.Five chapters discuss the properties of materials in general and those of biomaterials in particular. The authors examine the design of skeletal elements and discuss animal and plant systems in terms of mechanical design. In a concluding chapter they investigate organisms in their environments and the insights gained from study of the mechanical aspects of their lives.