Running springs: speed and animal size
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Running springs: speed and animal size.
Trotting and hopping animals use muscles, tendons and ligaments to store and return elastic energy as they bounce along the ground. We examine how the musculoskeletal spring system operates at different speeds and in animals of different sizes. We model trotting and hopping as a simple spring-mass system which consists of a leg spring and a mass. We find that the stiffness of the leg spring (k(...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Biology
سال: 1993
ISSN: 1477-9145,0022-0949
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.185.1.71