Modeling of the elastic damping response of a carbon nanotube-polymer nanocomposite in the stress-strain domain using an elastic energy release approach based on stick-slip

Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 791-800

  Spitas, Vasilios ^a   Spitas, Christos ^b   Michelis, Paul ^c  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b FACULTY OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN ENGINEERING   (Netherlands)

^c Institute of Mechanics of Material and Geostructures SA   (Greece)

Author keywords

carbon nanotubes; damping; nanocomposite; numerical modeling

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC ENERGY RELEASE; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; INTERFACIAL SHEAR STRENGTH; INTERFACIAL STRENGTH; MAXIMUM SHEAR STRESS; REPRESENTATIVE VOLUME ELEMENT (RVE); SINGLE CARBON NANOTUBE; STRESS-STRAIN BEHAVIORS;

CARBON NANOTUBES; DAMPING; ELASTICITY; NANOCOMPOSITES; NUMERICAL MODELS; SLIP FORMING;

POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES;

EID: 84880234004     PISSN: 15376494     EISSN: 15376532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15376494.2012.677100     Document Type: Article

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