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Front Cover: Advanced Engineering Materials 8∕2016
Publication year - 2016
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.201670026
Subject(s) - front cover , cover (algebra) , toughening , fracture toughness , materials science , front (military) , microstructure , toughness , composite material , computer science , mechanical engineering , engineering
Major microstructural features involved in the fracture process of cortical bone are selected and implemented in a new 3D‐printed composite design to reproduce the principal toughening mechanisms and achieve an increase in toughness with respect to the pure materials. This image shows a characteristic zig‐zag crack path, owing to continuous crack branching, with extraordinary similarities to the failure mechanisms observed in bone microstructure. Further details can be found in the article by M. J. Buehler and co‐workers on page 1354 .