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Elastic Bounds of Bioinspired Nanocomposites

 Biological materials in nature serve as a valuable source of inspiration for developing

 novel synthetic materials with extraordinary properties or functions. Much effort to date

 has been directed toward fabricating and understanding bio-inspired nanocomposites

 with internal architectures mimicking those of nacre and collagen fibril. Here we establish

 simple and explicit analytical solutions for both upper and lower bounds of the elastic

 properties of biocomposites in terms of various physical and geometrical parameters

 including volume fraction and moduli of constituents, and aspect ratio and alignment pattern

 of stiff reinforcements. Numerical analyses based on the finite element method are

 performed to validate the derived elastic bounds.

 

The paper is attached below for your reference.

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