Biological composites can overcome the conflict between strength and tough-ness to achieve unprecedented mechanical properties in engineering materials.The suture joint,as a kind of heterogeneous architecture widely existing in biological tissues,is crucial to connect dissimilar components and to attain a tradeoff of all-sided functional perfor-mances.Therefore,the suture joints have attracted many researchers to theoretically investigate their mechanical response.However,most of the previous models focus on the sutural interface between two chemically similar stiff phases with(or without)a thin adhesive layer,which are under the framework of linear elasticity and small deformation.Here,a general model based on the finite deformation framework is proposed to explore the stiffness and toughness of chemically dissimilar suture joints connecting soft and stiff phases.Uniaxial tension tests are conducted to investigate the tensile response of the suture joints,and finite element simulations are implemented to explore the underlying mechanisms,considering both material nonlinearity and cohesive properties of the inter-face.Two failure modes are quantitively captured by our model.The stored elastic energy in the soft phase competes with the energy dissipation due to the interface debonding,which controls the transition among different failure modes.The toughness of the suture joints depends on not only the intrinsic strengths of the constituent materials and their cohesive strength,but also the interfacial geometry.This work provides the structure-property relationships of the soft/stiff suture joints and gives a foundational guidance of mechanical design towards high-performance bioinspired composites.

Dong WU;Yixing HUANG;Ming LEI;Zeang ZHAO;Xiaogang GUO;Daining FANG

State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems&Center for Applied Physics and Technology,College of Engineering,Peking University,Beijing 100871,China;Beijing Key Laboratory of Lightweight Multi-functional Composite Materials and Structures,Beijing Institute of Technology,Beijing 100081,China;State Key Laboratory of Explosion Science and Technology,Beijing Institute of Technology,Beijing 100081,China;School of Astronautics,Northwestern Polytechnical University,Xi'an 710072,China

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[1]Dong WU;Yixing HUANG;Ming LEI;Zeang ZHAO;Xiaogang GUO;Daining FANG-.Stiffness and toughness of soft/stiff suture joints in biological composites)[J].应用数学和力学（英文版）,2022(10):1469-1484

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