A top-down approach for the prediction of hardness and toughness of hierarchical materials

Chaos, Solitons and Fractals

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2546-2552

  Carpinteri, Alberto ^a   Paggi, Marco ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; FRACTALS;

ANALYTICAL PREDICTIONS; GRAINED MATERIALS; HIERARCHICAL LEVEL; HIERARCHICAL MATERIALS; MAN MADE MATERIAL; MICRO-MECHANICAL MODELING; NESTED STRUCTURES; TOP DOWN APPROACHES;

HARDNESS;

EID: 67651002144     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2009.03.150     Document Type: Article

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