Crawling on directional surfaces

@article{Gidoni2014CrawlingOD,
  title={Crawling on directional surfaces},
  author={Paolo Gidoni and Giovanni Noselli and Antonio DeSimone},
  journal={International Journal of Non-linear Mechanics},
  year={2014},
  volume={61},
  pages={65-73}
}
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