Use of a Digital Image Correlation Technique for Measuring the Material Properties of Beetle Wing英文资料.pdfVIP

Journal of Bionic Engineering 6 (2009) 224–231 Use of a Digital Image Correlation Technique for Measuring the Material Properties of Beetle Wing Tailie Jin, Nam Seo Goo, Sung-Choong Woo, Hoon Cheol Park Biomemitics and Intelligent Microsystem Laboratory, Department of Advanced Technology Fusion , Konkuk University, Seoul 143-701, Republic of Korea Abstract Beetle wings are very specialized flight organs consisting of the veins and membranes. Therefore it is necessary from a bionic view to investigate the material properties of a beetle wing experimentally. In the present study, we have used a Digital Image Correlation (DIC) technique to measure the elastic modulus of a beetle wing membrane. Specimens were prepared by carefully cutting a beetle hind wing into 3.0 mm by 7.0 mm segments (the gage length was 5 mm). We used a scanning electron microscope for a precise measurement of the thickness of the beetle wing membrane. The specimen was attached to a designed fixture to induce a uniform displacement by means of a micromanipulator. We used an ARAMISTM system based on the digital image correlation technique to measure the corresponding displacement of a specimen. The thickness of the beetle wing varied at different points of the membrane. The elastic modulus differed in relation to the membrane arrangement showing a structural anisotropy; the elastic modulus in the chordwise direction is approximately 2.65 GPa, which is three times larger than the elastic modulus in the spanwise direction of 0.84 GPa. As a result, the digital image correlation–based ARAMIS system was suc- cessfully used to measure the elastic modulus of a beetle wing. In addition to membrane’s elastic modulu