Journal
ACTA BIOMATERIALIA
Volume 75, Issue -, Pages 439-450Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2018.05.012
Keywords
Architectured materials; Cross-ply; Glass; Three-dimensional laser engraving; Toughness
Funding
- NSERC Strategic Grant
- McGill Engineering Doctoral Award
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Glasses are optically transparent, hard materials that have been in sustained demand and usage in architectural windows, optical devices, electronics and solar panels. Despite their outstanding optical qualities and durability, their brittleness and low resistance to impact still limits wider applications. Here we present new laminated glass designs that contain toughening cross-ply architectures inspired from fish scales and arthropod cuticles. This seemingly minor enrichment completely transforms the way laminated glass deforms and fractures, and it turns a traditionally brittle material into a stretchy and tough material with little impact on surface hardness and optical quality. Large ply rotation propagates over large volumes, and localization is delayed in tension, even if a strain softening interlayer is used, in a remarkable mechanism which is generated by the kinematics of the plies and geometrical hardening. Compared to traditional laminated glass which degrades significantly in performance when damaged, our cross-ply architecture glass is damage-tolerant and 50 times tougher in energy terms. Crown Copyright (C) 2018 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of Acta Materialia Inc. All rights reserved.
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