• DOI:10.1088/1748-3182/6/1/016003
Corpus ID: 2510221

A mechanical analysis of woodpecker drumming and its application to shock-absorbing systems.

@article{Yoon2011AMA,
  title={A mechanical analysis of woodpecker drumming and its application to shock-absorbing systems.},
  author={Sang-Hee Yoon and Sungmin Park},
  journal={Bioinspiration & biomimetics},
  year={2011},
  volume={6 1},
  pages={
          016003
        }
}

Sang-Hee Yoon, Sungmin Park

Published 2011

Medicine, Engineering

Bioinspiration & biomimetics

A woodpecker is known to drum the hard woody surface of a tree at a rate of 18 to 22 times per second with a deceleration of 1200 g, yet with no sign of blackout or brain damage. As a model in nature, a woodpecker is studied to find clues to develop a shock-absorbing system for micromachined devices. Its advanced shock-absorbing mechanism, which cannot be explained merely by allometric scaling, is analyzed in terms of endoskeletal structures. In this analysis, the head structures (beak, hyoid… CONTINUE READING

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