Why is nacre strong? Elastic theory and fracture mechanics for biocomposites with stratified structures

By K. Okumura, P. de Gennes. 2001

183 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Biomaterials, Earth-Surface Processes, Oceanography

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In Biomaterials

1. F. Barthelat
2. Horacio Espinosa
3. Huajian Gao
4. Markus J. Buehler
5. R. Ritchie
6. M. Meyers
7. Bharat Bhushan

In Earth-Surface Processes

1. Horacio Espinosa
2. Huajian Gao
3. F. Barthelat

In Oceanography

1. Horacio Espinosa
2. Huajian Gao
3. F. Barthelat

Citations in the corpus

• Application of Fracture Mechanics Concepts to Hierarchical Biomechanics of Bone and Bone-like Materials (2006, background): “... including their hierarchical structures (Kessler et al., 1996; Menig et al., 2000, 2001; Kamat et al., 2000), the mechanical properties of protein on dissipating fracture energy (Smith et al., 1999; Thompson et al., 2001; Hassenkam et al., 2004; Fantner et al., 2004), the surface asperities of m”
• An Experimental Investigation of Deformation and Fracture of Nacre–Mother of Pearl (2007, background): “How the structure of nacre controls its mechanical properties (stiffness, strength, toughness) has been the focus of several models [7, 17, 20–23].”