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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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Lei_Zhang_2013_J Appl Mech_Elastic buonds of bioinspired nanocomposites.pdf | 703.35 KB |
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