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HELICOID INSPIRED COMPOSITES
Notched Bending & Other Properties
Notched bending tests performed on soft-polymer based helicoidal-inspired laminates show that decreasing the pitch angle leads to:
a decreasing initiation value of fracture toughness; and
a more stable, highly dissipative failure process characterized by a larger post-initiation load-bearing capability and delayed catastrophic failure
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