| Abstract Scope |
Biological materials often have gradually changing mechanical properties, which may enhance their fracture resistance and other types of mechanical integrities. This talk will present our recent progress on structural design of layer-by-layer composite structures with gradually changing mechanical properties. The study combines materials fabrication and characterization, mechanical testing and computational simulation. The short-term goal is to produce fracture-resistant structures for the applications such as dental crown, large-screen smartphone, flexible electronics, and so on. The long-term goal is to establish a mechanistically based platform for the design of robust composite materials/structures. |