Fig. 3: Uniaxial tensile properties and damage characteristics of the bioinspired Mg-Ti composites with three different architectures. | Nature Communications

Fig. 3: Uniaxial tensile properties and damage characteristics of the bioinspired Mg-Ti composites with three different architectures.

From: On the damage tolerance of 3-D printed Mg-Ti interpenetrating-phase composites with bioinspired architectures

Fig. 3: Uniaxial tensile properties and damage characteristics of the bioinspired Mg-Ti composites with three different architectures.

a Tensile engineering stress-strain curves and b overall fracture morphologies of the composites with the loading configurations for tensile tests illustrated in the insets in a. The data for coarse-grained pure Mg are also shown in (a) for comparison. c–e SEM images and X-ray computed tomography (CT) volume renderings of the tensile samples unloaded just prior to fracture for the (c) brick-and-mortar, (d) Bouligand, and (e) crossed-lamellar architectures. The CT images were processed by filtering out the signals of Mg and highlighting the cracking regions in yellow color. The insets in e magnify the slip bands within Mg and the deflection and branching of cracks in the composite with crossed-lamellar architecture.

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