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Front Cover Advanced Engineering Materials 6/2013
Author(s) -
Hamamoto Yukari,
Okumura Ko
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
advanced engineering materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.938
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 1527-2648
pISSN - 1438-1656
DOI - 10.1002/adem.201370014
Subject(s) - front cover , materials science , biocomposite , cover (algebra) , composite material , scaling law , scaling , front (military) , composite number , structural engineering , mechanical engineering , geometry , engineering , mathematics
Bioinspired by an extremely tough biocomposite, nacre, we performed numerical calculations of the layered structure in the presence of a crack. The crack‐tip stress for the model composite is turned out to be significantly mitigated as demonstrated by the inset, following the simple scaling law. For further details see the article by Ko Okumura et al. on page 522 .