Computational modeling of elastic properties of carbon nanotube/polymer composites with interphase regions. Part I: Micro-structural characterization and geometric modeling

Fei Han; Yan Azdoud; Gilles Lubineau

doi:10.1016/j.commatsci.2013.07.036

Computational modeling of elastic properties of carbon nanotube/polymer composites with interphase regions. Part I: Micro-structural characterization and geometric modeling

Fei Han, Yan Azdoud, Gilles Lubineau

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A computational strategy to predict the elastic properties of carbon nanotube-reinforced polymer composites is proposed in this two-part paper. In Part I, the micro-structural characteristics of these nano-composites are discerned. These characteristics include networks/agglomerations of carbon nanotubes and thick polymer interphase regions between the nanotubes and the surrounding matrix. An algorithm is presented to construct three-dimensional geometric models with large amounts of randomly dispersed and aggregated nanotubes. The effects of the distribution of the nanotubes and the thickness of the interphase regions on the concentration of the interphase regions are demonstrated with numerical results. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	641-651
Number of pages	11
Journal	Computational Materials Science
Volume	81
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2013.07.036
State	Published - Jan 2014

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