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Biological materials such as silk, nacre, and bone have superior mechanical properties due to their well-designed microstructures with dissimilar, namely soft and bulk, composites. It is widely believed that the unique microstructures result in high strength and toughness via a normal-shear-stress-coupling mechanism. Microcrack initiation in biological materials play a crucial role in triggering such...
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