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A variant of a stepwise analysis of the elastic properties of a carbon-nanotube-reinforced composite with account of the effect of interphase layers between the nanotubes and the polymer matrix is reported. The preliminary calculation of the elastic constants of a structural element incorporating a nanotube and an interphase layer and the subsequent calculation of independent elastic constants of a composite with such transversely isotropic structural elements oriented in one direction are both performed by using the Mori–Tanaka theory of an equivalent medium. The calculations are carried out for a wide range of ratios between the elastic moduli of the interphase layer and matrix. The elastic constants of a composite with randomly oriented nanotubes are obtained by using the method of orientational averaging.
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Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 377–388, May-June, 2011.
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Maksimov, R.D., Plume, E. Effect of interphase layers on the elastic properties of a carbon-nanotube-reinforced composite. Mech Compos Mater 47, 255–262 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11029-011-9205-y
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