J4 ›› 2016, Vol. 13 ›› Issue (3): 388-396.doi: 10.1016/S1672-6529(16)60312-8
Nanomechanical Behaviour of the Membranous Wings of Dragonfly Pantala flavescens Fabricius
Yanru Zhao1, Dongsheng Wang1, Jin Tong2, Jiyu Sun2
- 1. The College of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454000, China
2. The Key Laboratory of Bionic Engineering (Ministry of Education, China) and the College of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Jilin University (Nanling Campus), Changchun 130022, China
Nanomechanical Behaviour of the Membranous Wings of Dragonfly Pantala flavescens Fabricius
Yanru Zhao1, Dongsheng Wang1, Jin Tong2, Jiyu Sun2
- 1. The College of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454000, China
2. The Key Laboratory of Bionic Engineering (Ministry of Education, China) and the College of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Jilin University (Nanling Campus), Changchun 130022, China
摘要：
The dragonfly has excellent flying capacity and its wings are typical 2-dimensional composite materials in micro-scale or nano-scale. The nanomechanical behavior of dragonfly membranous wings was investigated with a nanoindenter. It was shown that the maxima of the reduced modulus and nanohardness of the in-vivo and fresh dragonfly wings are about at position of 0.7L, where L is the wing length. It was found that the reduced modulus and nanohardness of radius of the wings of dragonfly are large. The reduced modulus and nanohardness of Costa, Radius and Postal veins of the in-vivo dragonfly wings are larger than those of the fresh ones. The deformation, stress and strain under the uniform load were analyzed with finite element simulation software ANSYS. The deformation is little and the distribution trend of the strain is probably in agreement with that of the stress. It is shown that the main veins have better stabilities and load-bearing capacities. The understanding of dragonfly wings’ nanomechanical properties would provide some references for improving some properties of 2-dimentional composite materials through the biomimetic designs. The realization of nanomechanical properties of dragonfly wings will provide inspirations for designing some new structures and materials of mechanical parts.