Defect-Tolerant Bioinspired Hierarchical Composites: Simulation and Experiment

ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 295-304

  Mirzaeifar, Reza ^a   Dimas, Leon S ^a   Qin, Zhao ^a   Buehler, Markus J ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

3D printing; bioinspired design; defect tolerance; fracture toughness; hierarchical composite

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; GEOMETRY; MECHANICS; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL PRINTING;

EID: 84969271468     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23739878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ab500120f     Document Type: Article

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