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FROM THE BONE OF A HORSE, A NEW IDEA FOR AIRCRAFT STRUCTURES
University of Florida ^
| 12/02/02
| Aaron Hoover
Posted on 12/09/2002 8:15:28 PM PST by adakotab
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Accrued mutations or designed? Chance or a Great Engineer?
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posted on
12/09/2002 8:15:28 PM PST
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adakotab
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
ping
To: adakotab
Accrued mutations or designed? Chance or a Great Engineer?You no I was thinking the same thing while reading the article.
To: adakotab
But if the plane breaks a leag do we shot it?
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12/09/2002 8:28:26 PM PST
by
dts32041
To: adakotab
" The researchers tested the plate by placing it across two upright pillars and weighing it down, comparing the results with those from an identical test of a plate with a drilled hole without the foam stabilizer. It took twice the weight to break the biomimetic plate. Moreover, when it did finally break, the fracture did not go through the hole as occurred with the plate with the drilled hole."Isn't this why we use bubble wrap?
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posted on
12/09/2002 8:28:40 PM PST
by
Endeavor
To: adakotab
Accrued mutations or designed? Chance or a Great Engineer?
Accured mutations? That does happen. A case in point would be my first wife.
To: adakotab
They've been using something similar on mountain bike cranksets for a few years now. Carbon fiber filled holes in aluminum. I bet NASA didn't give the $650K to come up with these either!
To: RightWhale
ping
To: adakotab
A new meaning to "Horsepower".
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posted on
12/09/2002 8:49:25 PM PST
by
webber
To: One More Time
“We’re mimicking nature’s solution.” And refusing to give credit where credit is do...to the great designer who is nature anyway?
To: HairOfTheDog
As a horsewoman and a pilot, you may find this article interesting!
To: Bear_in_RoseBear
My horse is using his legbones. He needs them!
Just kidding... I will give it a read in the morning!
To: adakotab
science bump
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posted on
12/09/2002 9:02:13 PM PST
by
Cacique
To: adakotab
So when does lyinAlGore get his due for this new idea of his??!!
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12/09/2002 9:07:10 PM PST
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timestax
To: One More Time; adakotab; *tech_index; Sparta; Mathlete; Apple Pan Dowdy; grundle; beckett; ...
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Biomimesis: to mimic life, to imitate biological systems) 
An arm!
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
FYI, another -
To: adakotab
The upshot of their analyses: The bone was configured in such a way that it pushed the highest stresses away from the foramen into a region of higher strength. For example, the position of its osteons, or structural units created when the bone first developed, routed stress around the foramen. Ahhh, yes. And of course this was somehow "known" by the cells in some act of cellular self-awareness wizardry.
God gave us everything we need. It's amazing to see the lengths to which some go, having to work around the Creator.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Fascinating. I've forwarded this to all my engineers and metallurgists -- including a son who has his PhD in Metallurgical Engineering from UF.
To: aposiopetic
Novel?
Flying buttresses on Notre Dame.
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