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physics.flu-dyn2011★ 53 cited
Damping by branching: a bioinspiration from trees
Benoit Theckes, Emmanuel de Langre, Xavier Boutillon
Man-made slender structures are known to be sensitive to high levels of vibration, due to their flexibility, which often cause irreversible damage. In nature, trees repeatedly endu…
physics.bio-ph2011★ 44 cited
Flow-induced pruning of branched systems and brittle reconfiguration
Diego Lopez, Sebastien Michelin, Emmanuel de Langre
Whereas most plants are flexible structures that undergo large deformations under flow, another process can occur when the plant is broken by heavy fluid-loading. We investigate he…