The true stress-true strain curves of 11 Australian spider species from the Entelegynae
lineage were tensile tested and classified based on the values of the alignment parameter …

Spider silk is a natural material with unique properties and a great potential for engineering
and biomedical applications. In spite of its simple composition and highly conserved and …

Silk fibres attract great interest in materials science for their biological and mechanical
properties. Hitherto, the mechanical properties of the silk fibres have been explored mainly …

True stress–true strain curves of naturally spun viscid line fibres retrieved directly from the
spiral of orb-webs built by Argiope trifasciata spiders were measured using a novel …

Even before material science was a recognized discipline, the amazing mechanical
properties of spider silk were documented and became the object of much study. In addition …

Spider silk fibers are of scientific and industrial interest because of their extraordinary
mechanical properties. These properties are normally determined by tensile tests, but the …

The development of an accurate and reproducible approach to measuring the tensile
behavior of spider silk has allowed characterizing and comparing the range of mechanical …

The characterization of silk properties requires a reliable measurement of stress− strain
curves from tensile tests, which calls for a detailed analysis of what is considered the cross …

In order to fully exploit spider silk as a biomaterial, we must first understand it. While it is
possible to taxonomically categorize the mechanical properties and diversity of silks so that …

Mechanical tests were performed on single brins of Bombyx mori silkworm silk, to obtain
values of elastic modulus (E), yield strength, tensile breaking strength, and shear modulus …