Mechanical properties of nacre constituents and their impact on mechanical performance

By F. Barthelat, Chun-ming Li, C. Comi, Horacio Espinosa. 2006

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Biomedical Engineering, Paleontology

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Hierarchical structure and mechanical properties of nacre: a review (2012, positive): “25,31,32 Lamellar micro-architectures of hard composite tiles with soft organic layers in between can be thought of as ‘ceramic plywood’, which causes crack deflection and resists slip in order to provide toughness and impact resistance.”
Micromechanical models to guide the development of synthetic 'brick and mortar' composites (2012, background): “…Jackson et al., 1988; Espinosa et al., 2009; Jager and Fratzl, 2000; Currey et al., 2001; Evans et al., 2001; Gao et al., 2003; Ji and Gao, 2004a,b; Barthelat et al., 2006; Tang et al., 2007; Rabiei et al., 2010; Wang and Boyce, 2010), and exploit additional beneficial microstuctural features such…”
Architectured materials in engineering and biology: fabrication, structure, mechanics and performance (2015, background): “These proteins may confer the mineral an additional strength(94) but they do not seem to significantly change the elastic properties of the mineral.(95) In other cases the building blocks are themselves made of complex mineral–protein architectures as it is the case for bone osteons.”
Biological materials: Functional adaptations and bioinspired designs (2012, background): “[347] followed this work, and identified other mechanisms:”
Designing nacre-like materials for simultaneous stiffness, strength and toughness: Optimum materials, composition, microstructure and size (2014, methodology): “Previous experiments on the mineral tablets in nacre gave Et 100 GPa (Barthelat et al., 2006), and shear tests gave Ei ¼ 3Gi 2:4 GPa and τi 30 MPa (Barthelat et al., 2007), with hardening up to 50 MPa at a failure strain of γi ¼ 3.”
On the mechanics of mother-of-pearl: a key feature in the material hierarchical structure (2007, methodology): “Solids 55 (2007) 306–337 311 to another (Barthelat et al., 2006a), and in average they are 10–30 nm in size (height and width), with a spacing in the order of 100–200 nm (Fig.”
Merger of structure and material in nacre and bone - Perspectives on de novo biomimetic materials (2009, methodology): “These nanoscale features were observed using scanning probe microscopy [10,55], scanning electron microscopy [13,17] and transmission electron microscopy [10,13,46].”
An Experimental Investigation of Deformation and Fracture of Nacre–Mother of Pearl (2007, background): “By contrast, the behavior in hydrated condition exhibits a linear elastic response (E∼80 GPa), followed by a region of large strains starting at a stress of 70 MPa.”