ArticleInterface focus2016
Point of impact: the effect of size and speed on puncture mechanics.
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15 citing papers in PubMed.
- Trade-offs in mechanical performance influence the diversity of fangs, stingers, and spines.Science advances · 2026Article
- The biomechanics of fish skin: assessing puncture resistance to the dynamic predatory mechanism of cone snails.The Journal of experimental biology · 2026Article
- Sharpening our understanding of saber-tooth biomechanics.Anatomical record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007) · 2025Review
- Kinematics of strikes in venomous snakes.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- Being thin-skinned can still reduce damage from dynamic puncture.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2024Article
- Sexually selected weapons can wear out, decreasing their effectiveness in combat.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- The puncture mechanics: an example from the bed bugJournal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2024Article
- Elastic pinch biomechanisms can yield consistent launch speeds regardless of projectile mass.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2023Article
- Investigation of the rate-mediated form-function relationship in biological puncture.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Modelling biological puncture: a mathematical framework for determining the energetics and scaling.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2022Article
- Not your father's homodonty-stress, tooth shape, and the functional homodont.Journal of anatomy · 2020Article
- Grand Challenges in Comparative Tooth Biology.Integrative and comparative biology · 2020Article
- Development and Characterization of a Benchtop Corneal Puncture Injury Model.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- How do morphological sharpness measures relate to puncture performance in viperid snake fangs?Biology letters · 2019Article
- Modelling tooth-prey interactions in sharks: the importance of dynamic testing.Royal Society open science · 2016Article
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Abstract
The use of high-speed puncture mechanics for prey capture has been documented across a wide range of organisms, including vertebrates, arthropods, molluscs and cnidarians. These examples span four phyla and seven orders of magnitude difference in size. The commonality of these puncture systems offers an opportunity to explore how organisms at different scales and with different materials, morphologies and kinematics perform the same basic function. However, there is currently no framework for combining kinematic performance with cutting mechanics in biological puncture systems. Our aim here is to establish this framework by examining the effects of size and velocity in a series of controlled ballistic puncture experiments. Arrows of identical shape but varying in mass and speed were shot into cubes of ballistic gelatine. Results from high-speed videography show that projectile velocity can alter how the target gel responds to cutting. Mixed models comparing kinematic variables and puncture patterns indicate that the kinetic energy of a projectile is a better predictor of penetration than either momentum or velocity. These results form a foundation for studying the effects of impact on biological puncture, opening the door for future work to explore the influence of morphology and material organization on high-speed cutting dynamics.
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