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Representative elementary volume
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TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of addition of Coiled Carbon Nanotubes (CCNTs) on thermomechanical response of SMP under large deformations is numerically investigated.
Abstract: Shape memory polymers (SMPs) are a group of smart materials that, by applying an external stimulation such as the temperature, retrieve their permanent shape from a temporary one. SMP nanocomposites have been developed to improve the mechanical, thermal, electrical, and magnetic properties of SMPs for potential applications in e.g. medical equipment, sensors, actuators, and drug delivery systems. In this research, SMP is reinforced with Coiled carbon nanotubes (CCNT) due to its geometric properties which let material tolerate higher strains and improve thermomechanical properties of SMP. In this paper, the effect of addition of CCNT on thermomechanical response of SMP under large deformations is numerically investigated. Employing a thermo-visco-hyperelastic constitutive model for SMP, a cubic representative volume element is realized using Monte Carlo algorithm. The effect of inclusion's geometry (e.g. spring length or aspect ratio, pitch or number of coils of CCNT), volume fraction, as well as their distribution on the thermomechanical properties of SMP/CCNT composite in two stress- and shape recovery processes in different heating rates and pre-strains is studied using Finite Element technique. Results reveal that increasing the volume fraction up to 0.6%, leads to a 15% rise in the effective stress in the nanocomposite. Increasing the spring length of the CCNT, the strain recovery of the nanocomposite increases about 8%. It is shown that when the mechanical loading is parallel to the CCNTs orientation, the stress is about 25% larger than when the loading is perpendicular to the unidirectional CCNTs. But for the strain recovery, the orientation does not play an important role in the strain recovery.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of aspect ratio, volume fraction and MXene flake alignment on the final mechanical properties of representative volume element models was investigated and it was shown that aligned and higher aspect ratio particles significantly increase Young's modulus and tensile strength of the composite.
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TL;DR: In this article, the DECOVALEX III Bench Mark Test 2 has been used to evaluate the hydraulic conductivity tensors for a range of mechanical parameters and depths below ground level.
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TL;DR: This work adopts variational autoencoder (VAE), a machine learning generative model to learn a latent, reduced representation of a given RVE configuration that allows to perform Bayesian optimization (BayesOpt), a sequential optimization strategy, for the multi-material design problems.
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