Failure mechanisms in fibrous scaffolds

Acta Biomaterialia

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 7326-7334

  Koh, C T ^a,b   Strange, D G T ^a   Tonsomboon, K ^a   Oyen, M L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITI TUN HUSSEIN ONN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Electrospun scaffolds; Fibrous networks; Fracture; Nonwoven; Toughening mechanisms

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACK TIPS; FRACTURE TESTING; MICROSTRUCTURE; NONWOVEN FABRICS; SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY); SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TISSUE; WEAVING;

CRACKS PROPAGATION; ELECTROSPUN SCAFFOLDS; FAILURE MECHANISM; FIBRE BUNDLE; FIBROUS MATERIAL; FIBROUS NETWORKS; FIBROUS SCAFFOLDS; NON-WOVEN; RANDOM NETWORK; TOUGHENING MECHANISMS;

HISTOLOGY;

GELATIN; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ARTICLE; MICROSCOPE IMAGE; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84878305307     PISSN: 17427061     EISSN: 18787568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2013.02.046     Document Type: Article

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