A study on the tensile response and fracture in carbon nanotube-based composites using molecular mechanics

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Modeling of graphene–polymer interfacial mechanical behavior using molecular dynamics (2008, background): “Frankland et al (2003), Griebel and Hamaekers (2004), Zhu et al (2007) and Mokashi et al (2007) studied the stress–strain behavior of CNT–polymer composites by deforming the computational domain and evaluating the average mechanical response.”
Characterizing and Modeling Mechanical Properties of Nanocomposites-Review and Evaluation (2010, background): “In recent years, molecular dynamics simulation has been extensively used in predicting mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes and nanotubes reinforced composites [102-109], graphite/epoxy nanocomposites [110-112], and other nanocomposites [113-119].”
A review of the mechanical properties of isolated carbon nanotubes and carbon nanotube composites (2010, background): “It has been shown that the direct application of micromechanics equations to CNT composites will lead to inappropriate results [81, 107, 112, 114, 116, 117 , 119].”