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The Analysis and Comparison of the Needle-puncture Property of Four Types of Silkworm Cocoons

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Silkworm cocoons display outstanding properties in many aspects, such as thermal protection, biocompatibility and mechanical resistance and so on. In this paper, we focus on the puncture properties without detailed exploration of four types of cocoons (three domesticated cocoon and Eri silkworm). Different sections, end and middle, as well as different directions, puncturing from inner and outer surface, of four types of aforementioned cocoons were systematically analyzed and compared. The results of present research show that the middle section exhibits a relatively greater needle-puncture resistance compare with end section for three B. mori silkworm cocoons. With regard to different puncture directions, from external and internal surface, puncturing from internal surface exhibits a relatively higher needle-puncture load as well as fracture displacement tendencies compared with needle-puncture performance from external surface no matter in middle or end sections. Combining physical parameter assessment, statistical analysis and needle-puncture performance, this research inspires a clear-cut frame to design a composite with high puncture resistance.

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The work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11602156), Natural Science Research Project of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (Grant No. 18KJB540003), Jiangsu province industry university research cooperation project (Grant No. BY2018173), Undergraduate Training Program for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Soochow University (Grant No. 2018xj049), Foundation project of Jiangsu Advanced Textile Engineering Technology Center (Grant No. XJFZ/2018/03) and the Open Project Program of Key Laboratory of Eco-textiles, Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University (Grant No. KLET1701).

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  1. National Engineering Laboratory for Modern Silk, College of Textile and Clothing Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, China

    Qian Wang, Yan Zhang, Rong Zhang, Xuhong Yang & Ping Wang

  2. Shandong Institute for Product Quality Inspection, Jinan, 250000, China

    Hao Chen

  3. Key Laboratory of Eco-textiles, Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, China

    Pibo Ma

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Wang, Q., Zhang, Y., Chen, H. et al. The Analysis and Comparison of the Needle-puncture Property of Four Types of Silkworm Cocoons. Fibers Polym 21, 1868–1877 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12221-020-1184-y

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