Nonlinear dynamics of a synthetic spider web

Martin S Garrad; Ludovic Renson; Helmut Hauser

Nonlinear dynamics of a synthetic spider web

Martin S Garrad, Ludovic Renson, Helmut Hauser

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Abstract

Spiders dedicate a signiﬁcant amount of energy and a variety of different types of silk to build their webs. Therefore, it has been speculated that spider webs are more than just simple traps. Spider web are highly complex mechanical structures that might act also as mechanical ﬁlters that signiﬁcantly enhance and extend the sensory capabilities of spiders,enabling them to identify and localise preys and predators. This paper experimentally investigates the dynamic behaviour of a synthetic, 3D-printed spider web to identity general morphological features that can contribute to this ﬁltering capability. First results show, even a simple, artiﬁcial web exhibits a wide range of complex dynamic behaviours such as sub- and super-harmonic interactions

Original language	English
Title of host publication	NODYCON 2021Proceedings
Publisher	Springer, Cham
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 10 Sep 2020
Event	NODYCON 2021 - https://nodycon.org/2021/ Duration: 16 Feb 2021 → 19 Feb 2021

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Conference	NODYCON 2021
Period	16/02/21 → 19/02/21

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