Failure of carbon nanotube/polymer composites and the effect of nanotube waviness

Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1580-1586

  Li, Chunyu ^a   Chou, Tsu Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

A. Nano structures; A. Polymer matrix Composites; B. Fracture; B. Stress concentration; C. Computational modeling

Indexed keywords

A. NANO-STRUCTURES; A. POLYMER-MATRIX COMPOSITES; B. FRACTURE; B. STRESS CONCENTRATION; C. COMPUTATIONAL MODELING;

CARBON NANOTUBES; ELASTIC MODULI; FRACTURE; NANOSTRUCTURES; STRESS CONCENTRATION; TENSILE STRENGTH;

POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES;

EID: 70249117060     PISSN: 1359835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2009.07.002     Document Type: Article

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