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Bell Labs Research on Deep-Sea Sponge Yields Substantial Mechanical Engineering Insights - 0 views

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shared by Ako Z°om on 19 Jan 09 - Cached
  • "This creature's skeleton is a textbook lesson in mechanical engineering, offering valuable knowledge that could lead to new concepts in materials science and engineering design."
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  • identified seven different levels of structural hierarchy in the sponge. Each of the structural levels corresponds to a fundamental construction principle commonly used in civil engineering and sometimes product design, but on a scale 1,000 times smaller than a building.
  • when the diameter of the sponge's skeleton increases beyond a certain point the outer structure is reinforced by ridges in a spiral pattern.
  • Ako Z°om on 19 Jan 09
     
    "Nature has found a way to perfect inherently fragile materials by employing standard engineering principles from the nano to the macro scale,"
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