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Mechanical Behavior of Honeybee Forewing with Flexible Resilin Joints and Stripes
The flexibility of insect wings should be considered in the design of bionic micro flapping-wing aircraft. The honeybee is an ideal biomimetic object because its wings are small and possess a concise vein pattern. In this paper, we focus on resilin, an important flexible factor in honeybees’ forewin...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10604706/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37887582 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics8060451 |
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author | Hou, Dan Zhong, Zheng |
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description | The flexibility of insect wings should be considered in the design of bionic micro flapping-wing aircraft. The honeybee is an ideal biomimetic object because its wings are small and possess a concise vein pattern. In this paper, we focus on resilin, an important flexible factor in honeybees’ forewings. Both resilin joints and resilin stripes are considered in the finite element model, and their mechanical behaviors are studied comprehensively. Resilin was found to increase the static deflections in chordwise and spanwise directions by 1.4 times and 1.9 times, respectively. In modal analysis, natural frequencies of the first bending and first torsional modes were found to be decreased significantly—especially the latter, which was reduced from 500 Hz to 217 Hz—in terms of resilin joints and stripes, closely approaching flapping frequency. As a result, the rotational angle amplitude in dynamic responses is remarkable, with an amplification ratio of about six. It was also found that resilin joints and stripes together lead to well-cambered sections and improve the stress concentrations in dynamic deformation. As resilin is widespread in insect wings, the study could help our understanding of the flexible mechanism of wing structure and inspire the development of flexible airfoils. |
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spelling | pubmed-106047062023-10-28 Mechanical Behavior of Honeybee Forewing with Flexible Resilin Joints and Stripes Hou, Dan Zhong, Zheng Biomimetics (Basel) Article The flexibility of insect wings should be considered in the design of bionic micro flapping-wing aircraft. The honeybee is an ideal biomimetic object because its wings are small and possess a concise vein pattern. In this paper, we focus on resilin, an important flexible factor in honeybees’ forewings. Both resilin joints and resilin stripes are considered in the finite element model, and their mechanical behaviors are studied comprehensively. Resilin was found to increase the static deflections in chordwise and spanwise directions by 1.4 times and 1.9 times, respectively. In modal analysis, natural frequencies of the first bending and first torsional modes were found to be decreased significantly—especially the latter, which was reduced from 500 Hz to 217 Hz—in terms of resilin joints and stripes, closely approaching flapping frequency. As a result, the rotational angle amplitude in dynamic responses is remarkable, with an amplification ratio of about six. It was also found that resilin joints and stripes together lead to well-cambered sections and improve the stress concentrations in dynamic deformation. As resilin is widespread in insect wings, the study could help our understanding of the flexible mechanism of wing structure and inspire the development of flexible airfoils. MDPI 2023-09-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10604706/ /pubmed/37887582 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics8060451 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Hou, Dan Zhong, Zheng Mechanical Behavior of Honeybee Forewing with Flexible Resilin Joints and Stripes |
title | Mechanical Behavior of Honeybee Forewing with Flexible Resilin Joints and Stripes |
title_full | Mechanical Behavior of Honeybee Forewing with Flexible Resilin Joints and Stripes |
title_fullStr | Mechanical Behavior of Honeybee Forewing with Flexible Resilin Joints and Stripes |
title_full_unstemmed | Mechanical Behavior of Honeybee Forewing with Flexible Resilin Joints and Stripes |
title_short | Mechanical Behavior of Honeybee Forewing with Flexible Resilin Joints and Stripes |
title_sort | mechanical behavior of honeybee forewing with flexible resilin joints and stripes |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10604706/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37887582 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics8060451 |
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