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

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 69, Issue 7-8, 2009, Pages 1160-1164

  Chen, B ^a   Wu, P D ^a   Gao, H ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

A. Nanocomposites; B. Mechanical properties; C. Stress transfer; D. Modelling

Indexed keywords

A. NANOCOMPOSITES; B. MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; BIO-COMPOSITES; BIOLOGICAL COMPOSITES; C. STRESS TRANSFER; CHAIN MODELS; CHARACTERISTIC LENGTHS; CHARACTERISTIC VALUES; D. MODELLING; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; PROTEIN LAYERS; PROTEIN MATRIXES; UNIFORM SHEARS; UNIT CELLS;

BLOOD SUBSTITUTES; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MINERALS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOSTRUCTURES; SHEAR STRESS; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

METALLIC MATRIX COMPOSITES;

BIOLOGICAL PROPERTY; COMPOSITE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; PROTEIN; SHEAR PROPERTY; STRESS; TENSION;

EID: 64849092078     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2009.02.012     Document Type: Article

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