Strength, ductility and toughness are three very important, closely related material properties. The yield and ultimate strengths tell us how much stress a material can withstand, and are often used ...

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Materials like car tires, human tissues, and spider webs are diverse in composition, but all contain networks of interconnected strands. A long-standing question about the durability of these ...

Key Laboratory of Structure and Functional Regulation of Hybrid Materials of Ministry of Education, Anhui University, Hefei, Anhui 230601, China School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Anqing ...

Ningbo Institute of Northwestern Polytechnical University, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Ningbo 315103, China Engineering Research Center of Chinese Ministry of Education for Biological ...

The cause of failure in engineering structures is routinely investigated via the detailed study of material fracture surfaces ... is a powerful tool for studying surface changes and fracture mechanics ...