Functional significance of lamellar architecture in marine sponge fibers: conditions for when splitting a cylindrical tube into an assembly of tubes will decrease its bending stiffness

Sayaka Kochiyama, Benjamin Grossman-Ponemon, Haneesh Kesari

Numerous ingenious engineering designs and devices have been the product of bio-inspiration. Bone, nacre, and other such stiff structural biological materials (SSBMs) are composite…