Fracture behaviour of cracked carbon nanotube-based polymer composites: Experiments and finite element simulations

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 87-93

  Kuronuma, Y ^a   Shindo, Y ^a   Takeda, T ^a   Narita, F ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Finite element analysis; Fractography; Fracture mechanics; J integral; Nanocomposite; Toughness testing

Indexed keywords

CRACKED PLATE; CRITICAL LOAD; ELASTIC-PLASTIC FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; FRACTURE BEHAVIOUR; FRACTURE INSTABILITY; FRACTURE MECHANISMS; FRACTURE SURFACES; J INTEGRAL; LIQUID NITROGEN TEMPERATURE; POLYMER COMPOSITE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TENSILE TESTS; TOUGHNESS TESTING;

CARBON NANOTUBES; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; FRACTOGRAPHY; FRACTURE; FRACTURE MECHANICS; FRACTURE TESTING; LIQUID NITROGEN; NANOCOMPOSITES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TENSILE STRENGTH; TENSILE TESTING;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 74849140152     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: 14602695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.2009.01419.x     Document Type: Article

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