摘要:Legged locomotion has evolved as the most common form of terrestrial locomotion. When the leg makes contact with a solid surface, muscles absorb some of the shock-wave accelerations (impacts) that propagate through the body. We built a custom-made frame to which we fixated a rat (
Rattus norvegicus, Wistar) muscle (
m. gastrocnemius medialis and lateralis: GAS) for emulating an impact. We found that the fibre material of the muscle dissipates between 3.5 and
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