{"id":95113,"date":"2020-10-21T18:00:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/this-beetle-can-survive-getting-run-over-by-a-car-engineers-are-figuring-out-how\/"},"modified":"2020-10-21T18:00:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T15:00:07","slug":"this-beetle-can-survive-getting-run-over-by-a-car-engineers-are-figuring-out-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/this-beetle-can-survive-getting-run-over-by-a-car-engineers-are-figuring-out-how\/","title":{"rendered":"#This beetle can survive getting run over by a car. Engineers are figuring out how."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n The diabolical ironclad beetle has puzzle piece-like blades in its abdomen that “delaminate” to prevent the beetle’s exoskeleton from suddenly failing under immense force. Purdue researchers simulated this mechanism using 3D-printed versions of the blades. Credit: Purdue University\/Maryam Hosseini and Pablo Zavattieri
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Getting run over by a car is not a near-death experience for the diabolical ironclad beetle.<\/p>\n

How the beetle survives could inspire the development of new materials with the same herculean toughness, engineers show in a paper published Wednesday (Oct. 21) in Nature<\/i>.<\/p>\n

These materials would be stiff but ductile like a paper clip, making machinery such as aircraft gas turbines safer and longer-lasting, the researchers said.<\/p>\n

The study, led by engineers at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and Purdue University, found that the diabolical ironclad beetle’s super-toughness lies in its two armorlike “elytron” that meet at a line, called a suture, running the length of the abdomen.<\/p>\n

In flying beetles, the elytra protect wings and facilitate flight. But the diabolical ironclad beetle doesn’t have wings. Instead, the elytra and connective suture help to distribute an app<\/a>lied force more evenly throughout its body.<\/p>\n

“The suture kind of acts like a jigsaw puzzle. It connects various exoskeletal blades\u2014puzzle pieces\u2014in the abdomen under the elytra,” said Pablo Zavattieri, Purdue’s Jerry M. and Lynda T. Engelhardt Professor of Civil Engineering.<\/p>\n

This jigsaw puzzle comes to the rescue in several different ways depending on the amount of force applied, Zavattieri said.<\/p>\n


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