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Recent Developments in Multiscale Thermomechanical Analysis of Nanocomposites

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Multifunctional nanocomposite materials have been used extensively in aerospace, mechanical, civil engineering industries, and other engineering applications. This is mainly due to the enhanced mechanical characteristics such as high strength-to-weight ratio and the unique thermal and physiochemical properties of these nanostructures. It has been reported that there are significant improvements in the thermal conductivity of composite structures with the addition of low volume fractions of graphene. To understand and develop efficient composite systems with desired thermal characteristics, it is necessary to develop accurate thermal transport models of these advanced composite systems. In this chapter, the authors discuss some of the recent developments in multiscale modeling of the thermal and mechanical properties of advanced nanocomposite systems. To enhance the theoretical model development discussed in this chapter, the authors have also included some relevant works from the literature.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to acknowledge the support of the Oscar S. Wyatt Endowed Chair, and they are also grateful to the Texas A&M University’s Supercomputing Facility for providing the computational support and the Laboratory for Molecular Simulation in the Department of Chemistry at Texas A&M University for the software support. The second author would also like to acknowledge the support of the faculty start-up funds from The University of Alabama. The authors are also grateful to Professor Shaker Meguid for his invitation to prepare the manuscript and for his constructive comments on the manuscript.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA

    J. N. Reddy & G. U. Unnikrishnan

  2. Department of Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, 35487, USA

    V. U. Unnikrishnan

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Reddy, J.N., Unnikrishnan, V.U., Unnikrishnan, G.U. (2016). Recent Developments in Multiscale Thermomechanical Analysis of Nanocomposites. In: Meguid, S. (eds) Advances in Nanocomposites. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31662-8_7

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