Quantification of carbon nanotube distribution and property correlation in nanocomposites

Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1311-1318

  Bakshi, Srinivasa R ^a   Batista, Ruben G ^a   Agarwal, Arvind ^a  

^a The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

A. Carbon nanotubes; A. Metal matrix composites; B. Clustering; B. Dispersion

Indexed keywords

A. CARBON NANOTUBES; A. METAL MATRIX COMPOSITES; B. CLUSTERING; B. DISPERSION; COLD SPRAYING; DELAUNAY TRIANGULATION; DISPERSION PARAMETERS; ELASTIC MODULUS VALUES; IMAGE ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; METAL MATRIX COMPOSITES; REINFORCED ALUMINUM COMPOSITES; TWO PARAMETER;

ALUMINA; CARBON NANOTUBES; DISPERSIONS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NANOCOMPOSITES; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

METALLIC MATRIX COMPOSITES;

EID: 67651045794     PISSN: 1359835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2009.06.004     Document Type: Article

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