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Designing advanced structural composites based on mechanical performances analysis of the variable topology spacecrafts
Author(s) -
Ning Xin,
Wu Yalan,
Yuan Jianping,
Yue Xiaokui,
RamirezSerrano Alex
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
polymer composites
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.577
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1548-0569
pISSN - 0272-8397
DOI - 10.1002/pc.22861
Subject(s) - materials science , composite material , flexural strength , spacecraft , carbon nanotube , control reconfiguration , computer science , aerospace engineering , engineering , embedded system
Increasingly complex space operations require novel advanced structural composites for reconfigurable spacecrafts to have excellent flexural strength in reconfiguration processing and orbital maneuvering. Functionalized multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) are performed to fabricate the MWCNTs/carbon fiber/N, N′‐4, 4′‐bimaleimide diphenyl methane/diallylbisphenol A (MWCNTs/CF/BMI/DBA) composites. ANSYS analysis reveals that the requiring lowest flexural strength of the composites is 1,150 MPa to meet actual requirements. The flexural strength of the MWCNTs/CF/BMI/DBA composites with 1 wt% functionalized MWCNTs can fully meet the actual use for reconfigurable spacecrafts. And the thermal stabilities of the MWCNTs/CF/BMI/DBA composites are increased with the increasing addition of MWCNTs. POLYM. COMPOS., 35:2018–2022, 2014. © 2014 Society of Plastics Engineers