TY - JOUR
T1 - Computational modeling of elastic properties of carbon nanotube/polymer composites with interphase regions. Part I: Micro-structural characterization and geometric modeling
AU - Han, Fei
AU - Azdoud, Yan
AU - Lubineau, Gilles
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
PY - 2014/1
Y1 - 2014/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/563299
UR - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0927025613004370
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84888308282&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.commatsci.2013.07.036
DO - 10.1016/j.commatsci.2013.07.036
M3 - Article
SN - 0927-0256
VL - 81
SP - 641
EP - 651
JO - Computational Materials Science
JF - Computational Materials Science
ER -