Electrical resistance-based strain sensing in carbon nanotube/polymer composites under tension: Analytical modeling and experiments

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 72, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 1678-1682

  Kuronuma, Yu ^a   Takeda, Tomo ^a   Shindo, Yasuhide ^a   Narita, Fumio ^a   Wei, Zhijuan ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

A. Carbon nanotubes; A. Polymer matrix composites (PMCs); B. Electrical properties; C. Deformation; C. Modelling

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PREDICTIONS; ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE CHANGE; ELECTRICAL RESISTANCES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; HIGH STRAINS; INDUCED RESISTANCE; MACRO SCALE; MATRIX DEFORMATION; MATRIX MATERIALS; MECHANICAL DEFORMATION; POLYMER COMPOSITE; POLYMERMATRIX COMPOSITES (PMCS); STRAIN SENSING; TENSILE TESTS; TUNNELING EFFECTS;

ANALYTICAL MODELS; CARBON NANOTUBES; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; DEFORMATION; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; POLYMERS; TENSILE TESTING;

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

EID: 84865583105     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2012.07.001     Document Type: Article

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