Electrical resistance change and crack behavior in carbon nanotube/polymer composites under tensile loading

Composites Part B: Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 39-43

  Shindo, Yasuhide ^a   Kuronuma, Yu ^a   Takeda, Tomo ^a   Narita, Fumio ^a   Fu, Shao Yun ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TECHNICAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

A. Nano structures; A. Polymer matrix composites (PMCs); B. Electrical properties; B. Fracture

Indexed keywords

A. NANO-STRUCTURES; A. POLYMER-MATRIX COMPOSITES (PMCS); ANALYTICAL MODEL; ANALYTICAL PREDICTIONS; B. ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; B. FRACTURE; CRACK BEHAVIOR; CRACKED PLATE; ELASTIC-PLASTIC FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTION MECHANISMS; ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE CHANGE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FRACTURE PROPERTY; INDUCED RESISTANCE; J INTEGRAL; LIQUID NITROGEN TEMPERATURE; MECHANICAL RESPONSE; POLYMER COMPOSITE; RESISTANCE CHANGE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TENSILE LOADING; TENSILE TESTS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CARBON NANOTUBES; CRACKS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE; LIQUID NITROGEN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NANOCOMPOSITES; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES; TENSILE TESTING;

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

EID: 80055024247     PISSN: 13598368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2011.04.028     Document Type: Conference Paper

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