Lead Chief Investigator

Zbigniew Stachurski Engineering, FEIT, Australian National University

Project Title

Internal Structure of Sea Urchin Spine (Heliocidaris erythrogramma)

Brief Description for General Publications

The project is directed to characterisation of the inner structure of sea urchin spines. A sample of the spine has been scanned on CTscan at RSPhys. A large number of data has been collected. The nest step is to create a finite element analysis code to display the sample and to calculate several physical parameters, such as volume fraction of solid, porosity and its tortuosity, true solid cross-sectional area and similar. For this we need to use ABAQUS.