caa a22 4500 46322552X CHVBK 20180405153225.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10853-006-0520-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10853-006-0520-y Micro-mechanics based derivation of the materials constitutive relations for carbon-nanotube reinforced poly-vinyl-ester-epoxy based composites [Elektronische Daten] [Mica Grujicic, D. Angstadt, Y. Sun, K. Koudela] The atomic-level computational results of the mechanical properties of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube (MWCNT) reinforced poly-vinyl-ester-epoxy obtained in our recent work [Grujicic M, Sun Y-P, Koudela KL (2006) Appl Surf Sci (accepted for publication, March)], have been utilized in the present work within a continuum-based micro-mechanics formulation to determine the effective macroscopic mechanical properties of these materials. Since the MWCNT reinforcements and the polymer-matrix molecules are of comparable length scales, the reinforcement/matrix interactions which control the matrix-to-reinforcement load transfer in these materials are accounted for through direct atomic-level modeling of the "effective reinforcement” mechanical properties. The term an "effective reinforcement” is used to denote a MWCNT surrounded by a layer of the polymer matrix whose thickness is comparable to the MWCNT radius and whose conformation is changed as a result of its interactions with the MWCNT. The micro-mechanics procedure yielded the effective continuum mechanical properties for the MWCNT-reinforced poly-vinyl-ester-epoxy matrix composite mats with a random in-plane orientation of the MWCNTs as a function of the following composite microstructural parameters: the volume fraction of the MWCNTs, their aspect ratio, the extent of covalent functionalization of the MWCNT outer walls as well as a function of the mechanical properties of the matrix and the reinforcements. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2007 Grujicic Mica Department of Mechanical Engineering, Clemson University, 241 Engineering Innovation Building, 29634-0921, Clemson, SC, USA aut Angstadt D. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Clemson University, 241 Engineering Innovation Building, 29634-0921, Clemson, SC, USA aut Sun Y. Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, 29634, Clemson, SC, USA aut Koudela K. Applied Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, 155, ARL Building, 16802, University Park, PA, USA aut Journal of Materials Science Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 42/12(2007-06-01), 4609-4623 0022-2461 42:12<4609 2007 42 10853 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-006-0520-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-006-0520-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Grujicic Mica Department of Mechanical Engineering, Clemson University, 241 Engineering Innovation Building, 29634-0921, Clemson, SC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Angstadt D. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Clemson University, 241 Engineering Innovation Building, 29634-0921, Clemson, SC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sun Y. Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, 29634, Clemson, SC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Koudela K. Applied Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, 155, ARL Building, 16802, University Park, PA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Materials Science Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 42/12(2007-06-01), 4609-4623 0022-2461 42:12<4609 2007 42 10853 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer