This paper presents an experimental and numerical study of the folding behavior of thin composite materials consisting of carbon fibers embedded in a silicone matrix. The soft matrix allows the fibers to microbuckle without breaking and this acts as a stress relief mechanism during folding, which allows the material to reach very high curvatures. The experiments show a highly non-linear moment ...

Titanium alloys are commonly heat-treated to meet specific design requirements. In an effort to possibly create a better composite, the influence of heat treatments on the damage evolution and strength of a SiC/Ti metal matrix composite (MMC) was studied. Heat treatments of 450°C and 700°C for 24 hours were performed on axial and transverse unidirectional specimens. These specimens, in addition...

Effective elastic properties for carbon nanotube reinforced composites are obtained through a variety of micromechanics techniques. An embedded carbon nanotube  in  a  polymer  matrix  and  its surrounding  interphase  is  replaced with an equivalent fiber for  predicting  the  mechanical  properties of  the  carbon  nanotube/polymer composite. The effects of an interphase layer between the nan...

Effective elastic properties for carbon nanotube reinforced composites are obtained through a variety of micromechanics techniques. An embedded carbon nanotube  in  a  polymer  matrix  and  its surrounding  interphase  is  replaced with an equivalent fiber for  predicting  the  mechanical  properties of  the  carbon  nanotube/polymer composite. The effects of an interphase layer between the nan...

The spherical particle composite with the microstructure varying from perfectly ordered to completely disordered is considered. partially periodic packings of spheres are generated in framework reprehensive unit cell model aid Metropolis algorithm. orientation order invariants Q i introduced by Steinhardt et al. [ Phys. Rev. B 28 (1983) 784] molecular physics context taken as structural paramet...