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MATERIALS & DESIGN
Volume 39, Issue -, Pages 432-436Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2012.02.039
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- Institute of Polymer & Composites, TUHH, Harburg-Hamburg Germany
- School of Materials Science Technology
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Technology, BHU, Varanasi, India
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The effect of multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) addition on mechanical properties of epoxy resin was investigated to obtain the tensile strength, compressive strength and Young's modulus from load versus displacement graphs. The result shows that the tensile strength, compressive strength and Young's modulus of epoxy resin were increased with the addition of MWCNT fillers. The significant improvements in tensile strength, compressive strength and Young's modulus were obtained due to the excellent dispersion of MWCNT fillers in the epoxy resin. The dispersion of MWCNT fillers in epoxy resin was observed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analysis. Also, Halpin-Tsai model was modified by considering the average diameter of internal/external of multi-walled nanotube and orientation factor (alpha) to calculate the Young's modulus of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs)/epoxy resin composite. There was a good correlation between the experimentally obtained Young's modulus and modified Halpin-Tsai model. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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