Atomistically-informed mesoscale model of deformation and failure of bioinspired hierarchical silica nanocomposites

International Journal of Applied Mechanics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 699-717

  Sen, Dipanjan ^a   Buehler, Markus J ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

biological; coarse grained; deformation; failure; Hierarchical; materiomics; mechanics; modeling

Indexed keywords

ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS; BIO-INSPIRED; BIOLOGICAL; BIOLOGICAL COMPOSITES; COARSE-GRAINED; COMPOSITE DESIGNS; COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; CONSTITUTIVE MATERIALS; CRACK BRIDGING; CRACK PATHS; DESIGN PARADIGM; DIRECT SIMULATION; FORCE FIELDS; HIERARCHICAL; HIERARCHICAL LEVEL; HIGH STIFFNESS; IMPACT PROTECTION; J INTEGRAL; LENGTH SCALE; MACRO SCALE; MATERIOMICS; MECHANICAL LOADS; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE MODEL; MICROMETER LENGTHS; MODEL DESCRIPTION; MODEL SET; MULTISCALE ENGINEERING; NANO SCALE; NANO-METER SCALE; QUASI-BRITTLE FRACTURE; R-CURVES; SILICA COMPOSITES; SILICA MATERIAL; SILICA MATRIX; SILICA NANOCOMPOSITES; STRUCTURAL HIERARCHIES; SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION; UNIVERSAL DESIGN;

ALGAE; BRITTLE FRACTURE; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; CRACKS; DEFORMATION; DUCTILITY; FRACTURE MECHANICS; HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; MECHANICS; MICROMETERS; MODELS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SILICA; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;

ALGAE; BRITTLENESS; COMPOSITES; CRACKS; DEFORMATION; DUCTILITY; FAILURE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROMETERS; SILICA; SIMULATION; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 80052992667     PISSN: 17588251     EISSN: 1758826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S175882511000072X     Document Type: Article

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