Mesomechanical modeling of polymerclay nanocomposites using a viscoelastic-viscoplastic-viscodamage constitutive model

Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Tehrani, Ardeshir H ^a   Abu Al Rub, Rashid K ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

mesomechanical; nanoclay particles; nanocomposite; PMMA polymer; viscoelastic viscoplastic viscodamage

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; CONSTITUTIVE MODELS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; SILICATES; STRAIN RATE; VISCOELASTICITY;

MESO-MECHANICAL MODELING; MESOMECHANICAL; NANOCLAY PARTICLES; NONLINEAR VISCO-ELASTIC; PMMA POLYMERS; POLYMER-CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES; REPRESENTATIVE VOLUME ELEMENT (RVE); VISCOPLASTIC;

NANOCOMPOSITES;

EID: 80455140491     PISSN: 00944289     EISSN: 15288889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4004696     Document Type: Article

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