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As composite materials gain wider acceptance within the transportation industry, it is pertinent to investigate the available coating processes with a view to reduce emissions and associated costs. Current painting processes are not only...
Robust design has been gaining plenty of attention in both academia and industry over the past two and half decades. However, there is still plenty of room for improvement. In this dissertation research, several drawbacks of the existing...
Morphologic Influence of High Magnetic Fields on the In-Situ MOCVD (Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition) of Xylene-Ferrocene Nanotubes and Structures
To investigate the effect of high and low magnetic fields on the control of structure and morphology of carbon nanotubes, a unique in-situ MOCVD (Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition) facility is constructed and tested for a variety...
Carbon nanotube (CNT) is considered a promising engineering material because of its exceptional mechanical, electrical, and thermal properties. Buckypaper (BP), a thin sheet of assembled CNTs, is an effective way to handle CNTs in macro...
This research presents a study on an innovative composite manufacturing process called Resin Infusion between Double Flexible Tooling (RIDFT). In this process, resin is infused between two flexible tools through fiber reinforcements in a...
Since carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were first discovered in 1990, many researchers have been striving to learn more about their remarkable mechanical and physical properties. With these exceptional properties, CNTs are considered by...
Single-walled carbon nanotube buckypaper (SBP) is a thin film of preformed nanotube networks that possesses many excellent properties. SBP is considered to be very promising in the development of high-performance composite materials;...
High performance composites are currently being used in the marine, automotive, aerospace and defense industries. These industries demand materials with properties that are similar or better than conventional metals at a fraction of the...
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are one of the wonders of modern science. Discovered a little over 15 years ago, they have shown the research community an outstanding set of properties. In terms of mechanical properties, they exhibit extremely...
Since the discovery of Carbon Nanotubes in 1991, nanotechnology has come to a new episode. One of the new applications of single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) is to develop high performance actuators. Nanotube actuation mechanism...
Non-metallic materials such as ceramics are an accepted method to produce armor systems due to their low density, high hardness, high rigidity and strength in compression. Due to ceramic's low fracture toughness and the tendency of...
Carbon nanotubes have attracted tremendous attention in both industrial and academic world due to their incomparable attributes in various areas since their first discovery. In recent years, as one of the most distinctive applications, ...
The discovery of single-walled nanotubes (SWNTs) gives an important boost to nanomaterial research. Since the nanotubes have exceptional mechanical, thermal, and electrical properties, they are considered very promising reinforcement...
Buckypapers are thin films of nanostructured membranes made from carbon nanotubes (CNTs), which are amazingly strong nanomaterials that measure 1/50, 000th the diameter of a human hair. Buckypapers have outstanding thermal, electrical and...
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) possess great potential for developing high-performance and multifunctional nanocomposites for a wide variety of applications. As the cost of producing CNT buckypaper, a thin film of CNT networks, continues to...
Carbon nanotubes have excellent electrical, thermal, and mechanical properties as determined theoretically and experimentally. Their properties make them great candidates for use in a number of applications ranging from lightning strike...
A practical method to utilize carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in structural applications is to fabricate them into buckypapers (BPs), a thin film containing two-dimensional CNT networks, and combine them with a polymer matrix to make BP-polymer ...
Since their discovery in 1991, carbon nanotubes have undergone intensive research. The single-walled carbon nanotube, or SWNT, has a unique electronic structure. According to their chirality, they can be either metallic or semiconductors...
Since the discovery of carbon nanotubes in 1991 alongside their superior performance in mechanical and electrical properties, carbon nanotubes have been widely considered to be one of the most promising next generation materials. They...
For developing high performance carbon nanotube-reinforced polymer composites, uniform nanotube dispersion, good nanotube/matrix wetting and interfacial bonding, controlled alignment and high tube loading are critical issues. A novel...
Carbon nanotubes are theoretically one of the strongest and stiffest materials with a calculated tensile strength of ~200 giga Pascal and modulus of more than 1-4 tera Pascal for a single walled nanotube (SWNT). If the mechanical...
As manufacturing systems are becoming more complex, the use of multivariate fault detection and diagnosis methods are increasingly important. Effective fault detection and diagnosis methods can minimize cost of rework, plant down time...
Fiber-reinforced composites are becoming more popular due to their high strength to weight ratio, making them a suitable replacement for traditional metals for lightweight applications. However, for applications where electro...
Many researchers have studied the interfacial shear stress (ISS) in nanocomposites through theoretical calculation, computational simulation or sophisticated nanomanipulation experiment measurement. In this research, we attempt to...
The objectives of this research are to develop lightweight high-performance nanotube composite actuators that can be operated in open air and to study their actuation mechanisms. We successfully demonstrated solid electrolyte-based...
This dissertation presents a systematic study on the dimension variation prediction and control for polymer matrix fiber reinforced composites. A dimension variation model was developed for process simulation based on thermal stress...
This work describes a simple route for the production of carbon nanotube mats without high pressure processing or irradiation techniques that are generally used to produce Buckypaper. The Michael addition pathway was used to covalently...
The current research studied the idea of introducing energy-absorbing polymers – specifically high-density viscoelastic polyurethanes – to reduce the blunt trauma from residual impact energy. This work investigated the material...
The discovery of carbon nanotubes brought on a whole new world of nanotechnology. Various forms of carbon materials were developed, including single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT), multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWNT), and carbon nanofiber...
Many researchers proposed the use of carbon nanotubes as an advanced metal catalyst support for electrocatalysis applications. In this research, buckypaper (thin film of preformed nanotube network) electrodes with different weight ratios...
Carbon nanotubes have exceptional mechanical and functional properties and are considered by many as the most promising reinforcement for the next generation high performance nanostructured materials. Tubes dispersion and interfacial...
Polycarbonate (PC) is a transparent, impact resistant polymer that provides protection against breakage or intrusion. The mechanical toughness of PC is reported to be associated with the molecular motion of main chain molecules. The...
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) possess exceptional electrical properties. Networks of densely packed nanotubes that are formed by intercontacted or interconnected nanotubes and bundles were observed to form electrically conducting pathways over...
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