Break down three essential material properties, strength, ductility, and toughness, that every engineer and designer should ...

Key features observed in soft–hard composites, including mechanical hysteresis, sacrificial bond-driven toughening, and brittle-to-ductile (BTD) transitions, are successfully reproduced, suggesting ...

Weakened and brittle bones often result in osteoporotic fractures, many of which can pose major longterm complications, some of which are deadly.

Ultragenyx and Mereo have linked their brittle bone drug to sustained reductions in fracture rates in a midphase clinical trial.

A transition from ductile-to brittle fracture behavior at decreasing temperatures can be observed (Wolfgang and Sabine, 2001). This is commonly characterized by the so-called Ductile-Brittle ...

Rocks close to the surface fracture, whereas rocks at depths flow implying the existence of a “brittle-to-ductile” transition (BDT) region. This region is key in several Earth science applications and ...

This periodic design makes fabrication more feasible for next-generation aerospace and biomedical materials. However, such a design with brittle constituents often undergoes a sudden and catastrophic ...