Almagableh, A., Omari, M., Awad, A. (2017). Elastic Behavior of Carbon Nanotubes Reinforced Composites: Micromechanical Modeling. Journal of Applied Research on Industrial Engineering, 4(3), 199-204. doi: 10.22105/jarie.2017.54699
Ahmad Almagableh; Mohammad A. Omari; Ahmad. S. Awad. "Elastic Behavior of Carbon Nanotubes Reinforced Composites: Micromechanical Modeling". Journal of Applied Research on Industrial Engineering, 4, 3, 2017, 199-204. doi: 10.22105/jarie.2017.54699
Almagableh, A., Omari, M., Awad, A. (2017). 'Elastic Behavior of Carbon Nanotubes Reinforced Composites: Micromechanical Modeling', Journal of Applied Research on Industrial Engineering, 4(3), pp. 199-204. doi: 10.22105/jarie.2017.54699
Almagableh, A., Omari, M., Awad, A. Elastic Behavior of Carbon Nanotubes Reinforced Composites: Micromechanical Modeling. Journal of Applied Research on Industrial Engineering, 2017; 4(3): 199-204. doi: 10.22105/jarie.2017.54699
Elastic Behavior of Carbon Nanotubes Reinforced Composites: Micromechanical Modeling
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Hashemite University, Zarqa 13133, Jordan.
2Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan
3Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Technology, Al-Balqa’ Applied University, Amman, Jordan.
Receive Date: 21 June 2017,
Revise Date: 16 August 2017,
Accept Date: 25 September 2017
Abstract
A micromechanical model is applied to examine the tensile properties of composite materials filled with multi-wall CNT oriented in in-plane and out-of-plane direction and a quantitative micromechanical model for the mechanical behavior of CNT-composites has been developed. Digimat-MF is used to generate a realistic three-dimensional microstructure for the current carbon nanotube/ epoxy composite. The Digimat model simulates a system of aligned carbon nanotubes arranged in-plane and another one having out of plane arrangement of reinforcements. A second model shows a representative volume element for the current nano-composite, in which the carbon nanotubes were simulated as a randomly (fully) dispersed, where all particles have been separated from each other. The predicted mechanical properties are compared with experimental tensile properties of composite materials reinforced with multi-wall CNTs arranged in in-plane and out-of-plane direction. A good agreement between the micromechanical modeling and the experimental part is observed. Results show that the elastic energy stored in -the-through thickness direction reinforced composites is about two times higher than that in the pure polymer.
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