Pseudo-percolation: Critical volume fractions and mechanical percolation in polymer nanocomposites

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 71, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1273-1279

  Baxter, Sarah C ^a   Robinson, Christopher T ^b  

^a University of South Carolina   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

A. Nano composites; A. Particle reinforced composites; B. Interface; C. Multiscale modeling; C. Probabilistic methods

Indexed keywords

A. PARTICLE-REINFORCED COMPOSITES; B. INTERFACE; CRITICAL VOLUME; EFFECTIVE PROPERTY; ELASTIC COMPOSITES; EXCLUDED VOLUME; INTERFACE LAYER; INTERFACIAL REGION; MEAN-FIELD; MICRO MECHANICS MODEL; MICRO-SIZED PARTICLES; MULTI-SCALE MODELING; NANOSCALED; POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITE; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; PROBABILISTIC METHODS; UNDERLYING MECHANISM;

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PHASE INTERFACES; SOLVENTS; TITRATION; VOLUME FRACTION;

NANOCOMPOSITES;

EID: 80955180543     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2011.04.010     Document Type: Article

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