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Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Cockroach(Periplaneta americana) Resilin

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dc.contributor.authorChoudhury, Uditen
dc.contributor.committeechairDudek, Daniel M.en
dc.contributor.committeememberLesko, John J.en
dc.contributor.committeememberMoore, Robert Bowenen
dc.contributor.departmentEngineering Science and Mechanicsen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T21:28:15Zen
dc.date.adate2012-03-01en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T21:28:15Zen
dc.date.issued2012-01-23en
dc.date.rdate2012-03-01en
dc.date.sdate2012-01-31en
dc.description.abstractResilin is a cuticular protein found in a variety of insects. It can stretch up to 300% of its natural length without any creep or relaxation. Further, it operates across a wide frequency range from 5 Hz in locomotion to 13 kHz in sound production. Both the protein sequence and composition of natural resilin as well as the dynamic mechanical properties vary substantially across species. This suggests that mechanical properties may be evolutionarily tuned for specific functions within an insect. Here, samples of resilin obtained from the tibia-tarsal joint of the cockroach, Periplaneta americana, were tested using a custom built dynamic mechanical analyzer. The material properties in compression are obtained from the rubbery to glassy domain with time-temperature superposition (-2C to 55C) and time-concentration superposition (0 % to 93% ethanol by volume in water). At low frequency the storage modulus was found to be 1.5 MPa increasing to about 5 MPa in the transition zone. The glass transition frequency at 23C in complete hydration was found to be 200 kHz. The data shows that cockroach resilin is less resilient than dragonfly resilin at low frequencies, returning about 79% of the elastic strain energy at 25 Hz compared to 97% for dragonfly resilin. However, at the glass transition (200 kHz) the material returns about 47% of the elastic strain energy compared to 30% in dragonfly (2MHz ). The resilin pad in cockroach is a composite structure, acting as a compressive spring to passively extend the tibia-tarsal joint during cockroach locomotion. Its mechanical properties are more similar to the composite locust pre-alar arm than to the pure resilin dragonfly tendon, suggesting that macroscopic structural influences may be as important as molecular sequence differences in setting properties.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.identifier.otheretd-01312012-161014en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-01312012-161014/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/40869en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartChoudhury_U_T_2012.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectTime-Concentration Superpositionen
dc.subjectTime-Temperature Superpositionen
dc.subjectDynamic Mechanical Analysisen
dc.subjectBiopolymersen
dc.subjectResilinen
dc.subjectBiomaterialsen
dc.titleDynamic Mechanical Properties of Cockroach(Periplaneta americana) Resilinen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineEngineering Science and Mechanicsen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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