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M.D. Thouless
Researcher at University of Michigan
Publications - 187
Citations - 10038
M.D. Thouless is an academic researcher from University of Michigan. The author has contributed to research in topics: Fracture mechanics & Brittleness. The author has an hindex of 51, co-authored 179 publications receiving 8984 citations. Previous affiliations of M.D. Thouless include University of California, Berkeley & IBM.
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Dispersions of Aramid Nanofibers: A New Nanoscale Building Block
Ming Yang,Keqin Cao,Lang Sui,Ying Qi,Jian Zhu,Anthony M. Waas,Ellen M. Arruda,John Kieffer,M.D. Thouless,Nicholas A. Kotov +9 more
TL;DR: Stable dispersions of uniform high-aspect-ratio aramid nanofibers (ANFs) with diameters between 3 and 30 nm and up to 10 μm in length were successfully obtained and revealed distinct morphological features similar to carbon nanotubes.
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Effects of pull-out on the mechanical properties of ceramic-matrix composites
M.D. Thouless,Anthony G. Evans +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the influence of fiber pullout on the mechanical properties of fiber reinforced ceramics has been analyzed using an approach based on weakest-link statistics, and the essential physics contributed by the statistics is the establishment of a relationship between the fiber failure site, which governs the pull-out length, and properties of the fibers, the matrix and the interface.
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Tunable elastomeric nanochannels for nanofluidic manipulation
TL;DR: In this article, a tunable elastomeric nanochannels for nanofluidic manipulation was proposed. But the present invention relates to nanoch channels for performing biological assays.
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Mixed-mode fracture analyses of plastically-deforming adhesive joints
Qingda Yang,M.D. Thouless +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a mode-dependent embedded process zone (EPZ) model has been developed and used to simulate the mixed-mode fracture of plastically deforming adhesive joints, which can provide quantitative predictions of the deformation and fracture of mixedmode geometries.
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Growth and configurational stability of circular, buckling-driven film delaminations
TL;DR: In this paper, a study of delamination at the interface between a thin elastic film bonded to a substrate under conditions in which the film is subject to equi-biaxial compression is presented.