Mechanical Design in Organisms /

Mechanical Design in Organisms / / 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 i...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (423 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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