Hindered Crack Propagation in Materials with Periodically Varying Young's Modulus—Lessons from Biological Materials

By P. Fratzl, H. Gupta, F. Fischer, O. Kolednik. 2007

257 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Biomaterials, Biomedical Engineering, Water Science and Technology

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In Biomaterials

1. Zhefeng Zhang
2. Zengqian Liu
3. M. Meyers
4. R. Ritchie
5. Maria Byrne
6. F. Barthelat
7. Markus J. Buehler

In Biomedical Engineering

1. M. Meyers
2. Zhefeng Zhang
3. Zengqian Liu
4. R. Ritchie
5. F. Barthelat
6. Markus J. Buehler

Citations in the corpus

• Functional gradients and heterogeneities in biological materials: Design principles, functions, and bioinspired applications (2017, background): “collagen fibrils owing to the underlying local structural and compositional variations [147,148].”
• Elevated level of carbon dioxide affects metabolism and shell formation in oysters Crassostrea virginica (2010, background): “…travel shorter distances uninterrupted through the stiff and brittle crystalline layers and interface more often with softer organic rich lay- ers, which will deflect the cracks leading to more treacherous crack paths and hence toughening of the material (Fratzl et al. 2007, Zhang et al. 2010).”