Structural hierarchies define toughness and defect-tolerance despite simple and mechanically inferior brittle building blocks

Scientific Reports

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Sen, Dipanjan ^a   Buehler, Markus J ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MINERAL; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HARDNESS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HARDNESS; MINERALS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; SILICON DIOXIDE; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 84856715684     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00035     Document Type: Article

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