Nano Research & Applications

Predicting the mechanical behavior of epoxy resin based carbon nanotubes

17^th Edition of International Conference on Emerging Trends in Materials Science and Nanotechnology
April 26-27, 2018 Rome, Italy

Mohammed Al-Bahrani and Alistair Cree

Plymouth University, UK

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Nano Res Appl

DOI: 10.21767/2471-9838-C1-009

Abstract

This investigation has done to calculate the mechanical properties of epoxy resin reinforced with different weight fractions (0.1%, 0.2%, 0.3%, 0.4%, and 0.5%) of multiwall carbon nanotubes and two type of functionalization (MWCNTs and COOH-MWCNTs). In this work, the ultrasonic probe and ultrasonic bath were used to prepare the nanocomposites. The ANSYS workbench program version (16.2) and mathematical approach have employed to predict the nanocomposites mechanical properties. The scanning electron microscope (SEM) has used to show surface morphology of the tested nanocomposites. The results obtained using simulation approach and after compared with experimental results show that increases in MWCNTs content lead to enhance the mechanical properties of the pure epoxy resin. mohammed.naeem@plymouth.ac.uk