A characteristic length for stress transfer in the nanostructure of biological composites

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Designing nacre-like materials for simultaneous stiffness, strength and toughness: Optimum materials, composition, microstructure and size (2014, background): “This condition was examined by Gao (2006), Chen et al. (2009), who considered the length λ of the cohesive zone: λ¼ tt ffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi Et τi 1 ϕ ϕ γi s ð18Þ Where τi is the shear strength of the interface and γi is the shear strain at failure.”
Mechanical properties of unidirectional nanocomposites with non-uniformly or randomly staggered platelet distribution (2010, background): “We should point out that our analysis is intended only for cases when the tension–shear chain model is approximately valid, which requires that the aspect ratio fall below a critical value (Chen et al., 2009).”