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Multiscale modeling of stress transfer in continuous microscale fiber reinforced composites with nano-engineered interphase
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In this article, a pull-out model for a continuous fiber multi-scale composite is developed, and stress transfer behavior is studied for different orientations of carbon nanostructures considering their perfect and imperfect interfacial bonding conditions with the surrounding epoxy.About:
This article is published in Mechanics of Materials.The article was published on 2016-11-01. It has received 66 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Multiscale modeling & Fiber-reinforced composite.read more
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Fast parallel algorithms for short-range molecular dynamics
TL;DR: Comparing the results to the fastest reported vectorized Cray Y-MP and C90 algorithm shows that the current generation of parallel machines is competitive with conventional vector supercomputers even for small problems.
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Frequency-dependent forced vibration analysis of nanocomposite sandwich plate under thermo-mechanical loads
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of loading frequency on the dynamic behavior of nanocomposite sandwich plates under periodic thermo-mechanical loadings has been investigated, where the utilized sandwich plates are made of an isotropic polymer material and two symmetric face sheets reinforced by functionally graded (FG) distributions of carbon nanotube (CNT) agglomerations.
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Review on micromechanics of nano- and micro-fiber reinforced composites
TL;DR: In this article, the prediction of thermomechanical properties of fiber reinforced composites using several micromechanics models is discussed, such as strength of material approach, Halpin-Tsai equations, multi-phase mechanics of materials approaches, multiphase Mori-Tanaka models, composite cylindrical assemblage model, Voigt-Reuss models, modified mixture rule, Cox model, effective medium approach and method of cells.
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Molecular dynamics simulation study on interfacial shear strength between calcium-silicate-hydrate and polymer fibers
TL;DR: In this article, the interfacial shear strength, structure and dynamics between calcium-silicate-hydrate (C-S-H) and polyacrylic acid (PAA) fibers were investigated.
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Multiscale modeling of regularly staggered carbon fibers embedded in nano-reinforced composites
TL;DR: In this paper, a multiscale modeling of stress transfer characteristics of nano-reinforced polymer composite reinforced with regularly staggered carbon fibers is presented, in which the microscale carbon fibers are packed in hexagonal array in the carbon nanotube reinforced polymer matrix (CNRP).
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The effect of slightly weakened interfaces on the overall elastic properties of composite materials
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of imperfect interfaces on the overall elastic properties of composites is studied, where the imperfect interface is modeled by a linear spring-layer of vanishing thickness, and the Mori-Tanaka estimate and its modification are used to evaluate the effective moduli of composite having slightly weakened interfaces.
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Molecular simulations of crosslinking process of thermosetting polymers
Chunyu Li,Alejandro Strachan +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the DREIDING force field is employed with environment-dependent atomic charges obtained self consistently during the dynamics to predict the atomic structure and properties of the thermosetting polymer epoxy EPON-862 and curing agent DETDA.
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Characterizing elastic properties of carbon nanotubes/polyimide nanocomposites using multi-scale simulation
TL;DR: In this article, the elastic properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) reinforced polyimide nanocomposites using a multi-scale simulation approach were characterized using a transverse isotropic solid.
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A theory of plasticity for carbon nanotube reinforced composites
Pallab Barai,George J. Weng +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a two-scale micromechanical model to analyze the effect of CNT agglomeration and interface condition on the plastic strength of carbon nanotubes/metal composites.
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Improvements in mechanical properties of a carbon fiber epoxy composite using nanotube science and technology
TL;DR: Carbon fiber reinforced epoxy composite laminates, with strategically incorporated fluorine functionalized carbon nanotubes (f-CNTs) at 0.2, 0.3 and 0.5 weight percent (wt%), are studied for improvements in tensile strength and stiffness and durability under both tension-tension (R ǫ+0.1) and tension-compression (Rǫ −0. 1) cyclic loadings, and then compared to the neat (0.0) CNTs)-based composite laminate material as mentioned in this paper.