New Insight into the Toughening Mechanisms of Seashell: From Arch Shape to Multilayer Structure

A seashell is a closed three-dimensional curved surface formed by two symmetrical open shells. Three-point bending is performed on a pure aragonite straight beam (PASB) model and a multilayer structure curved beam (MSCB) model to elucidate the structure-property relationships of seashells. The integ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Quan Yuan, Botao Chen, Bin Chen, Zeyun Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2016-01-01
Series:Journal of Nanomaterials
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/3817985