elastic energy storage
Elastic energy storage in the mantis shrimp's fast predatory strike
... reduced energy storage by 10%, the remaining mineralized bars appear to be the sites of elastic energy ...in elastic energy ...
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Human hopping on very soft elastic surfaces: implications for muscle pre stretch and elastic energy storage in locomotion
... contractile elements and tendons may undergo a stretch–shorten cycle while the leg compresses and extends slightly, taking full advantage of both muscle pre-stretch and tendon elastic energy storage. ...
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The role of elastic energy storage and recovery in downhill and uphill running
... no energy generation is needed at –9deg, for participants around 70kg for whom the AEEE is likely most accurate, the grade at which positive power production is no longer needed occurs closer to ...metabolic ...
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The human iliotibial band is specialized for elastic energy storage compared with the chimp fascia lata
... for elastic energy storage relative to the chimpanzee fascia lata ...the energy storage potential of these structures, we created computer models of human and chimpanzee lower limbs ...
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The mechanics of the gibbon foot and its potential for elastic energy storage during bipedalism
... hallux, short toes and distal mass reduction. Most of these changes lead to increased stiffness/rigidity and enhanced mechanical leverage of the human foot, yet without sacrificing its essentially plantigrade and ...
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Elastic energy storage in primary feather shafts
... It is proposed that the kinetic energy of a pigeon's wing, in hovering or slow forward flight, is transferred to the air at the end of the downstroke by a mechanism involving temporary s[r] ...
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Elastic energy storage and release in white muscle from dogfish scyliorhinus canicula
... stored energy is eventually converted to external work and none is converted to ...stored elastic work is degraded into heat (bars marked with an ...
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Mechanics of cuticular elastic energy storage in leg joints lacking extensor muscles in arachnids
... an elastic mechanism to contraction of flexor muscles would be mechanically similar to that caused by constant elevated haemolymph pressure during locomotion, as illustrated by a comparison of the loading curves ...
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Kangaroo rat locomotion: design for elastic energy storage or acceleration?
... If we compare the stresses acting in the plantaris and gastrocnemius tendons of the kangaroo rat, in relation to the isometric force exerted by these two muscles, we find that the tendon[r] ...
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Jumping mechanics of desert kangaroo rats
... of energy from elastic elements and/or energy transfer from proximal to distal joints, often through biarticular muscles (Gregoire et ...that elastic energy storage did not ...
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Performance of guinea fowl Numida meleagris during jumping requires storage and release of elastic energy
... of elastic energy storage and release, the leg muscles could provide the large power outputs needed for achieving high velocities after ...supply energy to power takeoff and thus all the work ...
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Contribution of elastic tissues to the mechanics and energetics of muscle function during movement
... for energy storage over the course of a locomotor cycle in ...significant elastic energy storage and recovery in ...for energy storage in tendons in typical vertebrate ...
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Mechanical and energetic scaling relationships of running gait through ontogeny in the ostrich (Struthio camelus)
... the storage of elastic energy to offset the energetic requirements of supporting and redirecting the body weight during stance, improving locomotor efficiency (Cavagna et ...on elastic ...
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Developmental differences in dynamic muscle–tendon behaviour: implications for movement efficiency
... their energy-saving ...although elastic energy storage and recoil by PEC elements would be ...with energy dissipation during landing (Farley et ...this energy loss, muscular ...
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Mechanical properties of the venomous spines of Pterois volitans and morphology among lionfish species
... ), elastic energy storage (ability to absorb energy and restore the sample to its original shape), second moment of area (shape characterization; I ) and flexural stiffness (bending ...
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Storage and recovery of elastic potential energy powers ballistic prey capture in toads
... potential energy stored prior to movement, the rate of energy recovery (or power output) depends more strongly on the natural frequency [SQRT(k/m)] than on the elastic potential ...of elastic ...
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The movements of limb segments and joints during locomotion in African and Asian elephants
... extensive elastic tissues cross the ankle joint (Gambaryan, 1974), there is the potential for elastic energy storage – it is probably incorrect to characterize elephants as having ankles that ...
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The Mechanics of the Medial Gastrocnemius Muscle in the Freely Hopping Wallaby (Thylogale Billardierii)
... Elastic energy storage in the tendons increased with hopping speed but the percentage of total work done by elastic recoil of the whole muscle did not increase at higher hopping speeds..[r] ...
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Hovering of model insects: simulation by coupling equations of motion with Navier–Stokes equations
... mass-specific power, zero elastic energy mass-specific power, 100% elastic energy storage pitch rate position vector of body centre of mass vector of body centre of mass to root of wing [r] ...
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Energy storage by passive elastic structures in the mantle of sepia officinalis
... that elastic recoil (shortening) of collagen strands that span the thickness of the mantle causes ...passive elastic properties of the mantle of the squid Loligo opalescens, and calculated that the ...
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