Multi-scale mechanical and fracture characteristics and early-age strain capacity of high performance carbon nanotube/cement nanocomposites

Cement and Concrete Composites

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 110-115

  Konsta Gdoutos, Maria S ^a   Metaxa, Zoi S ^a,b   Shah, Surendra P ^b  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autogenous shrinkage; Carbon nanotubes; Mechanical properties; Nano fiber reinforcement; Nanoindentation

Indexed keywords

AUTOGENOUS SHRINKAGE; BENEFICIAL EFFECTS; CEMENT PASTE; CEMENTITIOUS MATRICES; EARLY AGE; FIBER REINFORCEMENT; FRACTURE CHARACTERISTICS; FRACTURE RESISTANCE; HIGH STIFFNESS; LONG TERM DURABILITY; MATRIX; MULTI-WALL CARBON NANOTUBES; MULTISCALES; NANO-FIBER REINFORCEMENT; ONE-STEP METHODS; REINFORCING EFFECTS; REINFORCING MATERIALS; STRAIN CAPACITIES; ULTRASONIC ENERGY;

ASPECT RATIO; CARBON FIBERS; CARBON NANOTUBES; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOFIBERS; NANOINDENTATION; REINFORCEMENT; SHRINKAGE; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

FRACTURE;

EID: 72949118644     PISSN: 09589465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cemconcomp.2009.10.007     Document Type: Article

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