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SUBMITTER: Davies B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4269876 | biostudies-other | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Davies Benjamin B King Alice A Newman Peter P Minett Andrew A Dunstan Colin R CR Zreiqat Hala H
Scientific reports 20141218
Bone and other natural material exhibit a combination of strength and toughness that far exceeds that of synthetic structural materials. Bone's toughness is a result of numerous extrinsic and intrinsic toughening mechanisms that operate synergistically at multiple length scales to produce a tough material. At the system level however no theory or organizational principle exists to explain how so many individual toughening mechanisms can work together. In this paper, we utilize the concept of pho ...[more]