Tension-tension fatigue behavior of unidirectional single-walled carbon nanotube reinforced epoxy composite

Carbon

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2177-2179

  Ren, Yu ^a   Li, Feng ^b   Cheng, Hui Ming ^b   Liao, Kin ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF METAL RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

A. Carbon nanotubes, Carbon composites; D. Mechanical properties

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; CRACKS; CYCLIC LOADS; ELASTIC MODULI; EPOXY RESINS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MORPHOLOGY; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; REINFORCEMENT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; STRESSES; TENSILE STRENGTH; TENSILE TESTING;

CYCLIC STRESS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 0043063886     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0008-6223(03)00248-3     Document Type: Article

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