Highlights
- In polymer matrix nanocomposites (PNC), carbon nanotubes (CNT) physically bond with polymeric matrix at a level where the assumption of continuum level interactions is not applicable.
- Modeling and prediction of mechanical response and failure behavior of CNTs and PNCs becomes a task involving up-scale modeling strategies with multiple spatial and temporal scales in hierarchical or concurrent manner.
- The article offers an insight into various modeling techniques used in studying the mechanical response of CNTs which are combined with analytical and numerical micromechanics models in a multiscale framework to predict the average macroscopic response of PNCs.
- The review also discusses the implementation aspects of these computational approaches, their current status and associated challenges with a future outlook.
Link:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037604211530004X