Application of Fracture Mechanics Concepts to Hierarchical Biomechanics of Bone and Bone-like Materials

By Huajian Gao. 2006

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Materials Chemistry

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Toughness amplification in natural composites (2011, background): “In particular, it would be interesting to explore the synergies of toughness amplifications provided by each length scale (Gao, 2006).”
Mineralized structures in nature: Examples and inspirations for the design of new composite materials and biomaterials (2010, background): “In a pure fracture-mechanics perspective Gao and coworkers showed that nanometer scale plays a key role in allowing these biological systems to achieve their superior mechanical properties [11], [12].”
Nanotopography-guided tissue engineering and regenerative medicine (2012, background): “Especially, in cortical bone, such high mechanical rigidity originated from brick-and-mortar structures, comprising plate-like mineral crystals stackedwithin the collagenmatrix [19,20].”
Discontinuous crack-bridging model for fracture toughness analysis of nacre (2012, background): “They clarified the significant roles which the nanoscale size of platelets, the hierarchical structure and the staggered platelet distribution play in the excellent mechanical behavior of this kind of biological materials (Gao et al., 2003; Gao, 2006; Zhang et al., 2010, 2011).”
In plane stiffness of multifunctional hierarchical honeycombs with negative Poisson’s ratio sub-structures (2013, background): “To improve the in plane stiffness of regular hexagonal honeycombs, the crucial role on stiffness, strength and toughness that hierarchy plays in both natural and bio-inspired materials has already been exploited [10–22].”
Molecular nanomechanics of nascent bone: fibrillar toughening by mineralization (2007, background): “the theoretical value, even under presence of cracks or other defects [13, 19].”
Cohesive modeling of crack nucleation under diffusion induced stresses in a thin strip: Implications on the critical size for flaw tolerant battery electrodes (2010, background): “Gao / International Journal of Solids and Structures 47 (2010) 1424–1434 1425”