Utilizing real and statistically reconstructed microstructures for the viscoelastic modeling of polymer nanocomposites

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 72, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 1725-1732

  Deng, Hua ^a   Liu, Yu ^a,b   Gai, Donghai ^a   Dikin, Dmitriy A ^a   Putz, Karl W ^a   Chen, Wei ^a   Catherine Brinson, L ^a   Burkhart, Craig ^c   Poldneff, Mike ^c   Jiang, Bing ^c   Papakonstantopoulos, George J ^c  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c GOODYEAR TIRE AND RUBBER COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

A. Nano composites; B. Mechanical properties; C. Finite element analysis; Image analysis and reconstruction

Indexed keywords

BEST APPROXIMATIONS; CARBON BLACK PARTICLES; FINITE ELEMENT MODELING; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; INTERFACIAL POLYMERS; MATERIAL SYSTEMS; MATRIX POLYMERS; MICROSCOPE IMAGES; POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITE; RUBBER COMPOSITE; SIMULATED RESULTS; STATISTICAL DESCRIPTIONS; VISCOELASTIC MODELING; VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES;

BINARY IMAGES; CARBON BLACK; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; RUBBER; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SYNTHETIC RUBBER; VISCOELASTICITY;

MICROSTRUCTURE;

EID: 84865575536     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2012.03.020     Document Type: Article

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