{"id":1492,"date":"2015-11-19T10:04:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T08:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/?p=1492"},"modified":"2017-10-18T14:05:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T12:05:06","slug":"ostrich-shell-microstructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/ostrich-shell-microstructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Ostrich shell microstructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">Ostrich eggs are very strong, yet ostrich chicks are able to peck their way out from the inside with little force. Investigating the inside of a fragment of ostrich shell might shed some light on this interesting natural mechanical system. These preliminary results show a fragment scanned using the nanoCT scanner and analysed for porosity size in colour coding. Tree-like pore structures are visible and are even more impressive in 3D videos at the links below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2015\/11\/crop-video-ostrich-shell.wmv\">crop video ostrich shell<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2015\/11\/ostrich-shell-pore-structure-rotation.wmv\">ostrich shell pore structure rotation<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2015\/11\/ostrich-egg-shell1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1495\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2015\/11\/ostrich-egg-shell1-1024x783.jpg\" alt=\"ostrich egg shell1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2015\/11\/ostrich-egg-shell1-1024x783.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2015\/11\/ostrich-egg-shell1-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2015\/11\/ostrich-egg-shell1.jpg 1348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2015\/11\/ostrich-egg-shell-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1496\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2015\/11\/ostrich-egg-shell-2-1024x783.jpg\" alt=\"ostrich egg shell 2\" width=\"1024\" height=\"783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2015\/11\/ostrich-egg-shell-2-1024x783.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2015\/11\/ostrich-egg-shell-2-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2015\/11\/ostrich-egg-shell-2.jpg 1348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ostrich eggs are very strong, yet ostrich chicks are able to peck their way out from the inside with little force. Investigating the inside of a fragment of ostrich shell might shed some light on this interesting natural mechanical system. These preliminary results show a fragment scanned using the nanoCT scanner and analysed for porosity &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/ostrich-shell-microstructure\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9533,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9533"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1850,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions\/1850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}