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Discontinuous fibrous Bouligand architecture enabling formidable fracture resistance with crack orientation

Kaijin Wu1, Zhaoqiang Song2, Shuaishuai Zhang1

  • 1Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Mechanical Behavior and Design of Materials, Department of Modern Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Center for Excellence in Complex System Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
|June 24, 2020
PubMed

Keywords:
biomimetic designfibrous compositefracture resistanceoptimization strategiestoughening mechanism

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