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Engineering

Our engineer Nick has been designing and 3-D printing these bricklike microstructures. He had redesigned them every time we learned new information. Here is the progression of his designs

These were our original prints, the square blocs came from an artists perception of the bricks, at first this was the only image of the bricks we could find.

These were our second perception of the bricks. We had discovered that they were held together by proteins that allow the bricks to slide and crumble under pressure making the bricks flexible allowing them to distribute the stress when force is applied into a shell. We weren't exactly sure how to represent the proteins bonded together. We tried it with some athletic tape but it didn't look as neat as we would like. So we tried another type of tape.

In this picture above we used a different type of athletic tape so when you gently pull the tape you can see the bricks come apart and then when you release you can see them come back together. This mimics the movement of the shell when force is applied.

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