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Fracture strength of biomimetic composites: scaling views on nacre
2005
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
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Nacre, layered structure on the nanoscale, found inside certain seashells, shows remarkable strength due to the tiny amount of soft glues between hard sheets. In this paper, we develop an anisotropic elastic theory and fracture mechanics for the laminar structure at the level of scaling laws to reproduce the essence of the previous results in a much simpler way.
doi:10.1088/0953-8984/17/31/015
fatcat:qyaqxaxtgrenbakddbsuj4gqk4