Silk

Sites 6

• Spider Silk Short classroom paper dealing with stress-strain curves and Young's modulus of spider silk. Edited by M. Beals and others.
• The Spider Web and Thread Short article about the chemical composition, physical properties, history and applications of spider silk. From the pages of The Spider by Ed Nieuwenhuys.
• Engineering Properties of Spider Silk Technical paper describing the engineering properties of individual fibers from spider dragline silk under uniaxial tension, transverse compression and torsional deformation. Authors: Frank K. Ko and others.
• Sericulture Illustrated description of Seventeenth Century Chinese method of producing and processing of silk. From A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization.
• Creep and Low Strength of Spider Dragline Subjected to Constant Loads Report on tests conducted on dragline spider silk, showing that contrary to common belief breaking strength under constant load testing is considerably lower than that measured in conventional constant strain rate tests, while elongation will increase appreciably over long timescales. Authors: Christopher Viney and others.
• Finding Inspiration in Argiope Trifasciata Spider Silk Fibers Technical article reviewing the mechanical properties of silk fibers from the spider Argiope trifasciata, in particular tensile behavior under controlled humidity and temperature. Authors: Manuel Elices and others.