The extraordinary mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), such as high modulus of elasticity and high tensile strength make them potential alternatives to reinforcing materials in polymer nanocomposites especially in structural applications where high strength to weight ratio is essential. The recent challenge of the reinforcement of carbon nanotubes in the polymer composites is hence to verify the static and dynamic performance under different loading and boundary conditions, which is critical for designing the structural components. In this analysis, the elastic constants for CNT/Polymer composite are obtained by using the Mori-Tanaka Micromechanics model. Further, an attempt is made for evaluating the deflection behavior of CNT reinforced polymer composite plates using the first-order shear deformation theory (FSDT) approach. The effect of CNT volume fraction, CNT radii on deflection response of an eight layered symmetric CNT/Polymer composite plates is investigated for various stacking sequences and the numerical results are obtained and presented for various loading and boundary conditions and also for different stacking sequences.
Volume 11 | 01-Special Issue
Pages: 1709-1716