@article {40,
	title = {Hydraulic fracture and toughening of a brittle layer bonded to a hydrogel},
	journal = {Physical Review Letters},
	volume = {115},
	year = {2015},
	pages = {188105},
	abstract = {<p align="justify">Brittle materials propagate opening cracks under tension. When stress increases beyond a critical magnitude, then quasistatic crack propagation becomes unstable. In the presence of several precracks, a brittle material always propagates only the weakest crack, leading to catastrophic failure. Here, we show that all these features of brittle fracture are fundamentally modified when the material susceptible to cracking is bonded to a hydrogel, a common situation in biological tissues. In the presence of the hydrogel, the brittle material can fracture in compression and can hydraulically resist cracking in tension. Furthermore, the poroelastic coupling regularizes the crack dynamics and enhances material toughness by promoting multiple cracking.</p>},
	keywords = {hydraulic fracture, multiple-cracking, toughening},
	doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.188105},
	author = {Alessandro Lucantonio and Giovanni Noselli and Xavier Trepat and Marino Arroyo and Antonio DeSimone}
}
