Evidence map›Paper›PMID 37194272›Full record

ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2023

Structural damping renders the hawkmoth exoskeleton mechanically insensitive to non-sinusoidal deformations.

Ethan S Wold, James Lynch, Nick Gravish, Simon Sponberg

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
7.5field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Causal models of rate-independent damping in insect exoskeleta.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ethan S WoldSchool of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9966-7715
James LynchMechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA 92161, USA.
Nick GravishMechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA 92161, USA.
Simon SponbergSchool of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4942-4894
Georgia Institute of Technology · USUniversity of California San Diego · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Muscles act through elastic and dissipative elements to mediate movement, which can introduce dissipation and filtering which are important for energetics and control. The high power requirements of flapping flight can be reduced by an insect's exoskeleton, which acts as a spring with frequency-independent material properties under purely sinusoidal deformation. However, this purely sinusoidal dynamic regime does not encompass the asymmetric wing strokes of many insects or non-periodic deformations induced by external perturbations. As such, it remains unknown whether a frequency-independent model applies broadly and what implications it has for control. We used a vibration testing system to measure the mechanical properties of isolated

Indexed as

Exoskeleton DeviceManducaAnimalsBiomechanical PhenomenaFlight, AnimalMusclesWings, AnimalexoskeletonflightManducastructural damping

Identifiers

PMID37194272
PMCPMC10189308
OpenAlexW4376872721

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