Investigation of stress transfer in carbon nanotube reinforced composites using a multi-scale finite element approach

Composites Part B: Engineering

Volumn 63, Issue , 2014, Pages 85-93

  Spanos, K N ^a   Georgantzinos, S K ^a   Anifantis, N K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

A. 3 Dimensional reinforcement; B. Interface interphase; B. Stress transfer; C. Finite element analysis (FEA); Nanocomposite

Indexed keywords

NANOCOMPOSITES; REINFORCEMENT; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); STIFFNESS; STIFFNESS MATRIX;

3-DIMENSIONAL REINFORCEMENT; CARBON NANOTUBE REINFORCED COMPOSITES; EFFECTIVE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; FINITE-ELEMENT APPROACH; HYBRID FINITE ELEMENTS; INTERFACE/INTERPHASES; REPRESENTATIVE VOLUME ELEMENT (RVE); STRESS TRANSFER;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 84899621841     PISSN: 13598368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2014.03.020     Document Type: Article

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