An assessment of flexural performance of liquid nitrogen conditioned glass/epoxy composites with multiwalled carbon nanotube

Journal of Composite Materials

Volumn 50, Issue 22, 2016, Pages 3077-3088

  Shukla, Meet Jayesh ^a   Kumar, Devalingam Santhosh ^a   Rathore, Dinesh Kumar ^a   Prusty, Rajesh Kumar ^a   Ray, Bankim Chandra ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

carbon nanotubes; Fiber reinforced polymer composites; liquid nitrogen conditioning; mechanical properties

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; CONCRETE BEAMS AND GIRDERS; EPOXY RESINS; FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; LAMINATES; LIQUID NITROGEN; LIQUIDS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NANOTUBES; NITROGEN; REINFORCED PLASTICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; YARN;

DESIGN PARAMETERS; E-GLASS FIBERS; FAILURE MECHANISM; FIBER REINFORCED POLYMER COMPOSITES; FLEXURAL PERFORMANCE; GLASS/EPOXY; GLASS/EPOXY COMPOSITE; MAXIMUM STRENGTH;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 84981333202     PISSN: 00219983     EISSN: 1530793X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0021998315615648     Document Type: Article

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