Model Progress for Tensile Power of Polymer Nanocomposites Reinforced with Carbon Nanotubes by Percolating Interphase Zone and Network Aspects

• Main Authors: Yasser Zare, Kyong Yop Rhee
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2020-05-01
• Series: Polymers
• Subjects: polymer CNT nanocomposites; mechanical percolation; interphase properties; filler network; tensile strength
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4360/12/5/1047

In the present work, a simple simulation is advanced based on a Callister equation considering the impacts of interphase and carbon nanotube (CNT) nets on the strength of nanocomposites after percolation onset. The advanced model can analyze the strength of nanocomposite by filler aspect ratio (<i>α</i>), percolation beginning (<em>φ_p</em>), interphase depth (<i>t</i>), interphase power (<i>σ</i><em>_i</em>), net density (<i>N</i>), and net power (<i>σ</i><em>_N</em>). The empirical consequences of several samples agree with the estimations of the industrialised model. The nanocomposite strength straightly depends on “<i>α</i>”, “<i>t</i>”, “<i>σ</i><em>_i</em>”, “<i>N</i>”, and “<i>σ</i><em>_N</em>”, while the radius and percolation onset of CNT play the inverse characters. The reasonable impacts of net and interphase possessions on the nanocomposite strength rationalise the accurate progress of the Callister equation.