Julian,

I got the information from the SARA Contents Alerting Service.
We don't subscribe to this journal so have not seen the full text.
	The link for the specific article is ...
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/app/home/contribution.asp?wasp=bb6d809
72897419dbdbade527009428a&referrer=parent&backto=issue,6,7;journal,1,16;
linkingpublicationresults,1:108744,1;
	but you will need both lines !!

Jinghong Fan's personal professional page is
http://people.alfred.edu/~fanjing/

Regards, John. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Engineers and biologists mechanical design list
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Subject: Re: Mechanisms in Failure Prevention of Bio-Materials and
Bio-Structures


Their website is rubbish and keeps referring me to M of Composite M and 
S (1998!!!).

Have you got a URL please, John?

Thanks
Julian

John Summerscales wrote:

> This newly published article may be of interest to members of the list
> 	(and a change from the on-going reprap discussion !)
> 
> Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures  
>    Publisher:   Taylor & Francis  
>    Issue:   Volume 12, Number 3 / May-June 2005  
>    Pages:   229 - 237  
>    URL:   Linking Options  
>    DOI:   10.1080/15376490590928598  
> 
> Mechanisms in Failure Prevention of Bio-Materials and Bio-Structures
> 
> Jinghong Fan A1, A2, Bin Chen A2, Zhihui Gao A2, Chunting Xiang A2
> 	A1 Division of Mechanical Engineering, Alfred University,
> Alfred, New York, USA
> 	A2 Research Center on Material Mechanics, ChongQing University,
> P.R. China
> 
> Abstract: Nature is replete with examples of layered-structure
materials
> that are evolved through billions of years to provide high
performance.
> Insect elytra (a portion of the exoskeleton) have evoked worldwide
> research attention and are believed to serve as fuselages and wings of
> natural aircraft. This work focuses on the relationship between
> structure, mechanical behavior, and failure mechanisms of the elytra.
We
> report a failure-mode-optimization (FMO) mechanism that can explain
> elytra's mechanical behaviors. We show initial evidence that this
> mechanism makes bio-structures of low-strength materials strong and
> ductile that can effectively resist shear forces and crack growth. A
> bio-inspired design of a joint by using the FMO mechanism has been
> proved by experiments to have a potential to increase the interface
> shear strength as high as about 2.5 times. The FMO mechanism, which is
> based on the new concept of property-structure synergetic coupling
> proposed in this work, offer some thoughts to deal with the
notoriously
> difficult problem of interface strength and to reduce catastrophic
> failure events.
>  
> Regards,
> ======================================
> Dr John Summerscales
> Reader in Composites Engineering
> ======================================
> Advanced Composites Manufacturing Centre
> School of Engineering
> University of Plymouth
> Plymouth,  Devon UK,  PL4 8AA.
>        Telephone: 01752 23 2650  
> WebSite:   http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/jsummerscales
> ======================================

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