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ArticleBiology open2019

Local deformation and stiffness distribution in fly wings.

Henja-Niniane Wehmann, Lars Heepe, Stanislav N Gorb, Thomas Engels, Fritz-Olaf Lehmann

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Article in Biology open, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Henja-Niniane WehmannDepartment of Animal Physiology, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 3, Rostock 18059, Germany.
Lars HeepeDepartment of Functional Morphology and Biomechanics, Zoological Institute, University of Kiel, Christian-Albrechts-Platz, 24118 Kiel, Germany.
Stanislav N GorbDepartment of Functional Morphology and Biomechanics, Zoological Institute, University of Kiel, Christian-Albrechts-Platz, 24118 Kiel, Germany.
Thomas EngelsLaboratoire de métérologie dynamique, Department Géosciences, Ecole Normale Supérieure and PSL, Paris, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France.
Fritz-Olaf LehmannDepartment of Animal Physiology, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 3, Rostock 18059, Germany fritz.lehmann@uni-rostock.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9511-3651
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel · DEUniversity of Rostock · DELaboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique · FR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mechanical properties of insect wings are essential for insect flight aerodynamics. During wing flapping, wings may undergo tremendous deformations, depending on the wings' spatial stiffness distribution. We here show an experimental evaluation of wing stiffness in three species of flies using a micro-force probe and an imaging method for wing surface reconstruction. Vertical deflection in response to point loads at 11 characteristic points on the wing surface reveals that average spring stiffness of bending lines between wing hinge and point loads varies ∼77-fold in small fruit flies and up to ∼28-fold in large blowflies. The latter result suggests that local wing deformation depends to a considerable degree on how inertial and aerodynamic forces are distributed on the wing surface during wing flapping. Stiffness increases with an increasing body mass, amounting to ∼0.6 Nm

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CalliphoraDrosophilaFlightInsectMuscaStiffness scalingWing mechanicsWing stiffness

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