Investigation of Vacancy Defects on the Young’s Modulus of Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Composites in Axial Direction via a Multiscale Modeling Approach

Subject Areas : Engineering

M.R Davoudabadi ¹ , S.D Farahani ²

1 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Semnan University
2 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Tehran

Received: 2010-09-16 Accepted : 2010-10-28 Published : 2010-09-30

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