Tunability and enhancement of mechanical behavior with additively manufactured bio-inspired hierarchical suture interfaces

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 29, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 1867-1875

  Lin, Erica ^a   Li, Yaning ^b   Weaver, James C ^c   Ortiz, Christine ^a   Boyce, Mary C ^a,d  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

strength; stress strain relationship; toughness

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; BIOMIMETICS; GEOMETRY; MECHANISMS; SHEAR STRESS; STRESS-STRAIN CURVES; TENSILE STRENGTH; TOUGHNESS;

BIOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; MECHANICAL FUNCTIONS; SHEAR STRESS RATIO; STRENGTH; STRESS/STRAIN RELATIONSHIPS; STRUCTURE/PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS;

FAILURE (MECHANICAL);

EID: 84908213795     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: 20445326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2014.175     Document Type: Article

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