Damage evolution in nanoclay-reinforced polymers: A three-dimensional computational study

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 74, Issue , 2013, Pages 67-77

  Dai, Gaoming ^a   Mishnaevsky, Leon ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

A. Nanoclay; A. Nanocomposites; C. Finite element analysis (FEA); C. Modeling

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; AUTOMATIC GENERATION; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; CRACK DEFLECTIONS; DAMAGE EVOLUTION; DAMAGE MECHANISM; FOUR-PHASE; HIGH ASPECT RATIO; MICRO-MECHANICAL; NANO CLAYS; NANO-PLATELETS; NANOCLAY-REINFORCED POLYMERS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; ORIENTATION EFFECT; PROGRAM CODE; UNIT CELL MODELS; UNIT CELLS; YOUNG MODULUS;

ASPECT RATIO; AUTOMATIC PROGRAMMING; EXPERIMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NANOCOMPOSITES; POLYMERS; REINFORCED PLASTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84869053058     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2012.10.003     Document Type: Article

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