Natural stiffening increases flaw tolerance of biological fibers
Many fibers in biomaterials such as tendon, elastin, or silk feature a nonlinear stiffening behavior of the stress-strain relationship, where the rigidity of the material increases severely as the material is being stretched. Here we show that such nonlinear stiffening is beneficial for a fiber'...
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American Physical Society
2013
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76181 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4173-9659 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-9199 |