This huge force (relative to the animal’s size) creates stress waves in both the shrimp’s target – typically a hard-shelled animal such as a crab or mollusc – and the dactyl club itself, explains ...

These methods allowed them to analyze how stress waves propagate through the mantis shrimp's dactyl club with great precision. The mantis shrimp's dactyl clubs—claw-like appendages used to ...

This course is designed to provide a theoretical background on the propagation of elastic stress waves in solids with periodic variation in geometry or elastic properties, a review of experimental ...