Graphene and its associated nanostructures (GANS) have been widely investigated by means of experimental and numerical approaches over the last decade. GANS and GANS …
This study examines the aggregation/agglomeration of layered clay in polymer nanocomposites and discusses their influences on nanoparticle characteristics and …
A novel modified Mori-Tanaka (MT) approach to modeling the stress-strain response of graphene nanocomposites subjected to large deformation is described. It is hypothesized …
W Shu, I Stanciulescu - International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2020 - Elsevier
An analytical approach based on multiscale homogenization is proposed to enable efficient and accurate characterizations of fiber-reinforced composites with imperfect interfaces …
A Jain - Materials Today Communications, 2019 - Elsevier
Efficient deployment of composites necessitates robust modelling approaches for homogenization and micromechanics calculations. Mean field homogenization (MFH) …
Mechanics of Multiscale Hybrid Nanocomposites provides a practical and application-based investigation of both static and dynamic behaviors of multiscale hybrid nanocomposites. The …
Micromechanical schemes homogenizing elastic properties as well as thermal and electrical conductivities of heterogeneous materials are most often developed as one-step procedures …
We use molecular dynamics simulations to study how the chain length affects the structure and segmental dynamics of polymer–nanoparticle (NP) composites at semidilute NP …
W Shu, I Stanciulescu - Composite Structures, 2020 - Elsevier
A shear-lag model is proposed for stress analysis of carbon nanotube-reinforced composites with interface damage. A cylindrical representative volume element (RVE) is used as a …