Christine's thesis


Download here --> "Scaling and Function of Spider Safety Line" (3,685 kb)

Note: There is an error in the thesis - page 9, the value for the stiffness of the glass rods (E) used for equation 2.10 should have been 5.4e10 instead of 7e10 N/m^2. This means that silk breaking forces tested with the glass rod setup should be 77% lower than what is reported, but the instron data is correct. I hope to have finished updating the data, graphs, figures and text by November 6, 2002.

Any comments on the science and/or my attempt at page layout are appreciated :-)


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Created on October 25, 2002