Mechanical properties of load-bearing biological materials

Bone, a typical load-bearing biological material, composed of ordinary base materials such as organic protein and inorganic mineral arranged in a hierarchical architecture, exhibits extraordinary mechanical properties. Up to now, most of previous studies focused on its mechanical properties under st...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Qwamizadeh, Mahan
Other Authors: Zhou Kun
Format: Thesis-Doctor of Philosophy
Language:English
Published: Nanyang Technological University 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/72399