Investigation of stress-strain behavior of single walled carbon nanotube/rubber composites by a multi-scale finite element method

Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 158-164

  Georgantzinos, S K ^a   Giannopoulos, G I ^a   Anifantis, N K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Finite element; Fracture; Nanocomposite; Nanotube; Rubber

Indexed keywords

ALIGNED SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; CONSTITUTIVE MATERIALS; CONTINUUM MEDIUM; FINITE ELEMENT; FINITE ELEMENT FORMULATIONS; GEOMETRICAL STRUCTURE; INTERFACIAL REGION; INTERFACIAL STIFFNESS; JOINT ELEMENT; LINE ELEMENT; MATRIX; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; MICROMECHANICAL THEORIES; MULTISCALE MODELS; MULTISCALES; NON-LINEAR; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; REPRESENTATIVE VOLUME ELEMENTS; RUBBER MATERIAL; RUBBERLIKE MATERIALS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON; SOLID ELEMENTS; STRESS-STRAIN BEHAVIORS; TWO-MATERIALS; VARIABLE STIFFNESS;

CARBON NANOTUBES; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; NANOCOMPOSITES; REINFORCED PLASTICS; REINFORCEMENT; RUBBER; STIFFNESS; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 70449708887     PISSN: 01678442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tafmec.2009.09.005     Document Type: Article

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