کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1560613 1513914 2014 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Effect of CNT waviness on the effective mechanical properties of long and short CNT reinforced composites
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه سایر رشته های مهندسی مکانیک محاسباتی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Effect of CNT waviness on the effective mechanical properties of long and short CNT reinforced composites
چکیده انگلیسی


• Model to estimate reduction in stiffening effect of aligned CNT due to its waviness.
• Prediction of the transverse modulus of aligned wavy CNT reinforced composite.
• Study of effect of CNT waviness on nanocomposites with short CNTs.
• Study of the effect of CNT waviness at different volume fractions of CNTs.
• Prediction of effective modulus of a randomly oriented wavy CNT reinforced composite.

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) possess extremely high stiffness, strength and resilience, and may provide ultimate reinforcing materials for the development of nanocomposites. CNT reinforced composite materials (CNTRC) can be effectively used in aircraft structures, due to their high strength to weight ratio. Accordingly, several experimental and analytical studies have been performed for evaluating effective mechanical properties of CNT-reinforced polymer matrix. However, several complex issues including sizes and forms of CNTs dispersed in a matrix, their distribution and orientation in the matrix make the simulations of the mechanical behaviour of these composites extremely complicated. One such issue is assessing the effect of nanotube curvature since embedded CNTs seldom remain straight inclusions. Nanotube curvature is often characterized by means of the waviness that accounts for the deviation from the straight particles assumption. In this paper, the effect of waviness of CNT is analyzed using a 3-D nanoscale representative volume element (RVE) based on continuum mechanics, and effective elastic modulus is calculated for two cases namely, a RVE with long CNT (CNT throughout the length of RVE) and a RVE with short CNT (CNT completely inside the RVE). Finite element method is used for the analysis. Further, a theoretical model based on the micromechanics of multi-phase composite and energy principles has also been developed to evaluate effective elastic constants of these RVEs. It is found that the reinforcing capacity of the CNTs reduces drastically even with a small waviness as compared to the straight CNTs. The effect of waviness is much more pronounced in case of long wavy CNT than short wavy CNT. The analysis is finally extended to predict the effective moduli of these composites embedded with completely randomly oriented CNTs of different waviness.

Micromechanical predictions (a: upper bound; b: lower bound) for the Young’s modulus of a nanocomposite consisting of randomly-oriented MWNTs (having straight or wavy shape) in a polystyrene matrix, at different CNT volume fractions.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Computational Materials Science - Volume 95, December 2014, Pages 21–28
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