... styles and the mechanical properties of light weight and high strength. The optical and nanomechanical properties of purplish red S. femorata purpurea Lichtenstein were studied by using an angle-resolved spectroscopy system and a nanoindenter, respectively. In finite-element analysis, three...

..., the improved biological properties, mechanical properties and other functionalities such as infection resistance, drug delivery at the target, sensing and detection of bone diseases and corrosion and wear resistance are elaborated. At last, a particular focus has been given to the unresolved challenges...

...Hongyan Qi, BA; Guixiong Gao, MA; Huixin Wang, BA; Yunhai Ma, PhD; Hubiao Wang, PhD; Siyang Wu, BA; Jiangtao Yu, BA; Qinghua Wang, PhD The naked mole rat incisors (NMRI) exhibit excellent mechanical properties, which make it a good prototype for design and fabrication of bionic mechanical systems...

... prepared. The mechanical properties, namely, Young’s modulus, hardness and fracture toughness, were determined and an improvement in the mechanical performance by genetic modification was observed. Figure 1 (a) Schematic representation of the disk structure of the not modified wt-TMV as well as E50Q...

...Yunhai Ma, PhD; Huixin Wang, BA; Honglei Jia, PhD; Hubiao Wang, BA; Yang Xiao, MA; Jiangtao Yu, MA; Hongyan Qi, MA; Chuangfa Chen, MA The structure, composition and mechanical properties of badger teeth were characterized. At the same time, the difference between badger teeth and human teeth were...

...Fernando G. Torres, MPhil, PhD; Diego Lama, BSc The protective structures that occur in biological systems are complex composite materials that display impressive mechanical properties, considering the weak properties of the individual constituents from which they are assembled. Body armors...

... reserved 2017 composite materials mechanical properties natural materials Shells of gastropods and bivalves are composite materials containing a mineral phase embedded in organic matrices. 7 The mineral phase comprises aragonite (nacreous shells) or calcite (calcitic shells). Some species...

... and collagen in the near-surface area, both modulus mapping and on-site FE-SEM nanoindentation techniques were utilized to observe the nanomechanical properties of ‘undisturbed’ normal and OI bones. The mechanical properties of a bone are orders of magnitude better than a simple sum of the individual...

... the external layers. The manner in which natural structures such as those present in Coix lacryma-jobi and Thevetia peruviana are organised are not fully understood. A more complete understanding of the mechanical properties of the hard structures would provide more information for qualifying...

... ceramics with needle-shaped elementary units then allows for translating voxel-specific microporosities to corresponding elasticity and strength properties, as well as to macro-to-micro scale transition (‘concentration’) tensors. These mechanical properties and tensors are fed into a large-scale finite...

...Natalia A. Khovanova, PhD; Torgyn Shaikhina, BEng; Kajal K. Mallick, PhD This study investigated the correlation of age in male and female specimens with physico-mechanical properties of trabecular bone including compressive strength, bone volume fraction, structural model index, trabecular...

...Chunju Gu, MSc; Dinesh R. Katti, PhD; Kalpana S. Katti, PhD Viscoelasticity of bone has been of interest for many years because this time-dependent mechanical property relates to the fracture risk of bone under dynamic loading. Several factors have been claimed to contribute to this property...

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.... * Corresponding author e-mail address:   haiyunli@ccmu.edu.cn 24 07 2013 12 11 2013 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2014 biological and medical physics bone finite element models geometric model mathematical modelling mechanical properties vertebroplasty Spine...

... to arise from the hierarchically organized microstructure. However, the relationship between microstructure and mechanical properties is not completely clear. We investigated the failure behavior of whole Macadamia integrifolia nutshells and specimens cut from the shell, under tension...