Many natural and biomimetic platelet–matrix composites—such as nacre, silk, and clay-polymer—exhibit a remarkable balance of strength, toughness and/or stiffness, which call for a universal measure to ...

Abstract.The full-rank LDL* decomposition of a polynomial Hermitian matrix is examined. Explicit formulae are given evaluating the coefficients of matrices 𝑙𝑖𝑗 and 𝑑𝑗𝑗. Also, a new method is ...