Elastic response of a carbon nanotube fiber reinforced polymeric composite: A numerical and experimental study

Hybrid carbon nanotube–carbon fiber composites with improved in-plane mechanical properties

“…While several numerical studies suggested that hybrid composites based on fuzzy fibers (incorporating both micro scale carbon fibers and surface grown nanofibers) could possess superior properties in comparison to standard CFRP [8,10,24], the published experimental results, so far, do not support this promise. The working temperature range for CCVD falls between 700 and 1200 °C, making CCVD destructive to the carbon fiber substrate itself [25,26], leading to degraded mechanical properties of the CFRP.…”

Investigating the mechanical properties of single walled carbon nanotube reinforced epoxy composite through finite element modelling

“…For the present study, an outer radius of the interface is taken as twice of the SWNT radius. Other than these issues, researchers have also proposed different types of bonding between SWNT and polymer matrix in their models [18,40,41] and the two most assumed approaches are further elaborated by the authors in the following two sub-sections. RVEs from both these approaches have been developed in this study for the sake of comparison.…”

Multiscale Modeling of Polymer–Nanotube Nanocomposites

“…As a result, the accumulated knowledge and application of multiscale modeling with regards to CNT-polymer composites is still rather biased toward a micromechanical point of view. More recently, the spotlight has been on fuzzy fiber composites [91][92][93], in which CNTs are applied as an auxiliary phase to promote the interfacial properties of conventional fiber-reinforced composites. In this application, the integration of both micro-mechanical ply-level and macro-mechanical laminate-level analysis is truly important to evaluate the performance of the CNT forest grown from microscale fibers.…”