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  Volume 1, Number 1, 2016 , pages 65-76
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/mmm.2016.1.1.065
 

Local nanofiller volume concentration effect on elastic properties of polymer nanocomposites
Hyunseong Shin, Jin-Gyu Han, Seongmin Chang and Maenghyo Cho

 
Abstract
    In this study, an influence of local variation of nanoparticulate volume fraction on the homogenized elastic properties is investigated. It is well known that interface effect is dependent on the radius and volume fraction of reinforced nanofillers. However, there is no study on the multiscale modeling and analysis of polymer nanocomposites including polydispersed nanoparticles with consideration of interphase zone, which is dependent on the volume fraction of corresponding nanoparticles. As results of numerical examples, it is confirmed that an influence of local variation of nanoparticulate volume fraction should be considered for non-dilute system such as cluster of nanoparticles. Therefore representative volume element analysis is conducted by considering local variation of nanoparticle volume fraction in order to analyze the practical size of cell including hundreds of nanoparticles. It is expected that this study could be extended to the multiparticulate nanocomposite systems including polydispersed nanoparticles.
 
Key Words
    volume fraction effect; polymer nanocomposites; multiscale homogenization; molecular dynamics simulation; Interface effect
 
Address
Hyunseong Shin, Jin-Gyu Han, Seongmin Chang and Maenghyo Cho: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, San 56-1, Shillim-Dong, Kwanak-Ku, Seoul 151-742, Republic of Korea
 

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