Nacre's brick–mortar structure suppresses the adverse effect of microstructural randomness

• Main Authors: Yan, Yi, Zhao, Zi-Long, Feng, Xi-Qiao, Gao, Huajian
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Engineering::Mechanical engineering; Nacre; Microstructural Randomness
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/164041
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Biological materials have evolved various degrees of robustness against microscopic defects and structural randomness. Of particular interest here is whether and how nacre's brick–mortar structure suppresses the adverse effect of microstructural randomness. To this end, a tension–shear–chain (T...