Effect of straight and wavy carbon nanotube on the reinforcement modulus in nonlinear elastic matrix nanocomposites

Materials and Design

Volumn 34, Issue , 2012, Pages 603-608

  Motamedi, Mohsen ^a   Eskandari, Mostafa ^a   Yeganeh, Mahdi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC MATERIALS; ELASTIC MATRIX; ELASTICITY MODULI; ENERGY FUNCTIONS; HYPER ELASTIC; HYPERELASTIC BEHAVIOR; LOW YOUNG'S MODULUS; MATRIX MATERIALS; NANOTUBE COMPOSITES; NANOTUBE WAVINESS; POLYNOMIAL FORM; REPRESENTATIVE VOLUME ELEMENTS; RUBBER MATRIX; STRAIN ENERGY FUNCTIONS; STRAIN FUNCTIONS; TEST DATA; THREE DIMENSIONAL FINITE ELEMENT MODEL; VISCOELASTIC POLYMERS;

ABAQUS; CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NANOCOMPOSITES; POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

RUBBER;

EID: 82455209025     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2011.05.013     Document Type: Article

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