1. Biological Self-Arrangement of Fiber Like Aragonite and Its Effect on Mechanical Behavior of Veined rapa whelk Shell.
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Ji, Hong‐Mei, Jiang, Yun, Yang, Wen, Zhang, Guang‐Ping, Li, Xiao‐Wu, and Troczynski, T.
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ARAGONITE , *MECHANICAL behavior of materials , *COMPRESSIVE strength , *MECHANICAL loads , *ANISOTROPY - Abstract
The microstructures of Veined rapa whelk shell were characterized, and a series of compression tests were carried out on the shell with the compressive loading direction making different angles (0°, 30°, 60° and 90°) with the shell spiral lines. Weibull analysis of the experiment results shows that the compressive strength is generally the highest for the sample with 0°-orientation but the lowest for that with 60°-orientation, which means that the strength shows an obvious anisotropy and the strongest orientation represents the direction parallel to the spiral lines of the shell. Such a phenomenon is closely related to the distinctive microscopic arrangements of different-order aragonite lamellae. The interfaces of different-level lamellae in the adjacent macro-layers yield effects on the mechanical behavior of the shell in a coordinated fashion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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