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Effective Parameters on the Stress–Strain Curve of Nylon 66/Clay Nanocomposite Using FEM
Author(s) -
Saadatfar M.,
Afaghi Khatibi A.,
Mortazavi B.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
strain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.477
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1475-1305
pISSN - 0039-2103
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-1305.2009.00633.x
Subject(s) - materials science , nanocomposite , composite material , volume fraction , finite element method , polymer , nylon 6 , polymer clay , polymer nanocomposite , ultimate tensile strength , stress (linguistics) , stress–strain curve , particle (ecology) , structural engineering , deformation (meteorology) , engineering , linguistics , philosophy , oceanography , geology
In recent years, the study of polymer/clay nanocomposites has attracted major research and commercial interests due to their superior mechanical and thermal properties to those of the neat polymers. Numerical modelling is an advantageous approach to understand the material behaviour. In this work a symmetric two dimensional finite element model is developed to simulate the fully exfoliated Polymer/Clay nanocomposite behaviour and evaluate its’ before stress stress–strain curve. The Nylon 66/Clay in this study has a nonlinear elastic behaviour. The influence of volume fraction and aspect ratio of clay platelet (defined as the ratio of the particle length to the particle thickness) on the tensile behaviour of exfoliated Nylon 66/clay nanocomposite is investigated with the aid of numerical simulations. Results show good agreement with experimental data from literature.