Self-sensing of elastic strain, matrix yielding and plasticity in multiwall carbon nanotube/vinyl ester composites

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Ku Herrera, J J ^a   Aviles F ^a   Seidel, G D ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA DE YUCATÁN   (Mexico)

^b Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTOPLASTIC BEHAVIOR; ELECTRICAL RESISTANCES; ESTER COMPOSITES; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MECHANICAL LOADING; PIEZO-RESISTIVE BEHAVIOR; TENSION AND COMPRESSION; TENSION LOADING;

CARBON; ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES;

EID: 84881176829     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/22/8/085003     Document Type: Article

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