Recovery in spider silk fibers
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M. Elices; J. PΓ©rez-Rigueiro; G. Plaza; G. V. Guinea
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Article
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2004
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract The extreme toughness of spider silk is dependent on the silk's ability to dissipate most of the mechanical energy imparted to the fiber during loading processes through irreversible deformations. This basic property makes the tensile behavior of spider silk fibers depend on the silk's