A numerical study on carbon nanotube pullout to understand its bridging effect in carbon nanotube reinforced composites

Composites Part B: Engineering

Volumn 81, Issue , 2015, Pages 64-71

  Jia, Yuanyuan ^a   Chen, Zuorong ^b   Yan, Wenyi ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

A. Carbon nanotube; B. Debonding; C. Finite element analysis (FEA); Critical embedded length

Indexed keywords

CRACK INITIATION; CRACKS; DEBONDING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES; POLYMERS; REINFORCEMENT; SHEAR STRESS; YARN;

CARBON NANOTUBE REINFORCED COMPOSITES; CNT REINFORCED COMPOSITES; COHESIVE ZONE MODELLING; CRITICAL EMBEDDED LENGTH; INTERFACIAL BONDING; NANOTUBE PULL OUTS; POLYMERIC COMPOSITES; POLYMERIC MATRICES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 84937802789     PISSN: 13598368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2015.07.003     Document Type: Article

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