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Fig. 2. Experimental set-up of the monitored forced silking process. The immobilized spider (a) is placed upside down, and the tip of the fibre (b) is fixed with a magnet (c) to the load cell (d). The silking process proceeds by displacing the crosshead of the testing machine at constant speed.





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