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MICROSCOPY RESEARCH AND TECHNIQUE
Volume 79, Issue 7, Pages 664-674Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/jemt.22681
Keywords
sheep horn; microstructure; mechanical properties; biological coupling
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51475206]
- Jilin Province Science and Technology Development Plan Projects [20140204010GX]
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The sheep horn presents outstanding mechanical properties of impact resistance and energy absorption, which suits the need of the vehicle bumper design, but the mechanism behind this phenomenon is less investigated. The microstructure and mechanical properties of the sheep horn of Small Tailed Han Sheep (Ovis aries) living in northeast China were investigated in this article. The effect of sampling position and orientation of the sheep horn sheath on mechanical properties were researched by tensile and compression tests. Meanwhile, the surface morphology and microstructure of the sheep horn were observed using scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The formation mechanism of the mechanical properties of the sheep horn was investigated by biological coupling analysis. The analytical results indicated that the outstanding mechanical properties of the sheep horn are determined by configuration, structure, surface morphology and material coupling elements. These biological coupling elements make the sheep horn possess super characteristics of crashworthiness and energy absorption through the internal coupling mechanism. We suppose that these findings would make a difference in vehicle bumper design. (C) 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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