Advances in Fracture Research

Advances in Fracture Research

Honour and Plenary Lectures Presented at the 11th International Conference on Fracture (Icf11), Held in Turin, Italy, on March 20-25, 2005

Herausgegeben: Carpinteri, Alberto; Mai, Yiu-Wing; Ritchie, Robert O.
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Biological materials are bottom-up designed systems formed from billions of years of natural evolution. In the long course of Darwinian competition for survival, nature has evolved a huge variety of hierarchical and multifunctional systems from nucleic acids, proteins, cells, tissues, organs, organisms, animal communities to ecological s- tems. Multilevel hierarchy a rule of nature. The complexities of biology provide an opportunity to study the basic principles of hierarchical and multifunctional s- tems design, a subject of potential interest not only to biomedical and life sciences, but als...