Finding a strategy to optimize the dispersion of SiCnws and achieve stable crack deflection is key to fully utilizing their reinforcing and toughening effects, and it is significant for enriching ...

This research reveals the physical mechanism behind the toughening effect of crack front in heterogeneous material, offering innovative ideas for future design of bioinspired heterogeneous materials.

Recently, a team led by Xiaomeng Fan from Northwestern Polytechnical University, China reported a low-modulus brittle interface design method for reinforcing and toughening multiphase ceramics.

Yet fracture mechanics measurements showed that this tissue was also more susceptible to microscopic fractures, with lower crack-initiation toughness and less crack deflection at osteonal ...

Inspired by the material that makes up oyster and abalone shells, engineers have created a new cement composite that is 17 times more crack-resistant than standard cement and 19 times more able to ...

Human femurs have inspired a new cement-based construction material that is multiple times stronger than traditional concrete.But the bone-like design doesn’t get its resiliency from any new ...