- Title Information
- Title
- A Preliminary Investigation of Damage in Marine Mammal Tissue due to Mechanical Loads using Silicone Rubber
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- simpson, tarik matthew
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- Mathiowitz, Edith
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- Crisco, Joseph
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- Gray, Marissa
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- Reader
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- Srivastava, Vikas
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- Brown University. Biology and Medicine: Biomedical Engineering
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- 2025
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- , None p.
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- Thesis (Sc. M.)--Brown University, 2025
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- Abstract
- Underwater shock waves can cause harm to a variety of marine life. This problem can
be detrimental to marine mammals that rely on echolocation. As an example, underwater impact and
acoustic shock waves can cause irreparable damage marine mammal melon (in toothed whales), which
assists these animals in hunting and communication. The adverse effects to these creatures caused
by underwater impact forces or shock waves could cause long-lasting problems to the ecosystem, such
as extinction and the overpopulation of their known prey [2]. It will be of value to understand what
happens to the melon or other critical soft tissues in marine mammals under various amounts of force.
Surrogate materials such as Ecoflex 300 have been used to investigate the potential mechanical damage
to melon. We have conducted preliminary research to use the same surrogate material at different concentrations
and applied various forces on the materials to study if there is any change in the material
after the force is applied.
- Subject (fast)
(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/01011853")
- Topic
- Materials--Mechanical properties
- Subject
- Topic
- Marine melon
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(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/01009689")
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- Marine mammalogy
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(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/01152637")
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- Toothed whales
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- English
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- 20250707