Nanotube fracture during the failure of carbon nanotube/alumina composites

Carbon

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3709-3716

  Yamamoto, Go ^a   Shirasu, Keiichi ^a   Hashida, Toshiyuki ^a   Takagi, Toshiyuki ^a   Suk, Ji Won ^b   An, Jinho ^b   Piner, Richard D ^b   Ruoff, Rodney S ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA MATRIX; CERAMIC COMPOSITES; CRACK OPENING; FRACTURE MECHANISMS; FRACTURE MODE; HIGHER LOADS; INNER CORE; MATRIX; NEW DESIGN; OUTER SHELLS; PULL-OUT TEST; PULLING OUT; PULLOUT MODELS; SINGLE NANOTUBES; TENSILE LOADING; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE;

FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

FRACTURE;

EID: 79959968562     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2011.04.022     Document Type: Article

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