Carbon Nanotube Enhanced Aerospace Composite Materials: A New Generation of Multifunctional Hybrid Structural Composites

By Alkis Paipetis and V Kostopoulos

Book Overview

Preface.- Carbon Nanotubes for novel hybrid structural composites with enhanced damage tolerance and self-sensing/actuating abilities, by A. S. Paipetis and V. Kostopoulos.- On the use of electrical conductivity for the assessment of damage in Carbon nanotubes enhanced aerospace composites, by Antonios I. Vavouliotis and Vassilis Kostopoulos.- Carbon nanotube structures with sensing and actuating capabilities, by C. Jaillet, N.D. Alexopoulos, P. Poulin.- Mechanical dispersion methods for carbon nanotubes in aerospace composite matrix systems, by Sergiy Grishchuk, Ralf Schledjewski.- Chemical Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes for dispersion in epoxy matrices, by Dimitrios J. Giliopoulos, Kostas S. Triantafyllidis and Dimitrios Gournis.- Stress Induced Changes in the Raman Spectrum of Carbon Nanostructures and their Composites, by A. S. Paipetis.- Mechanical and Electrical Response Models of Carbon Nanotubes, by T C Theodosiou and D A Saravanos.- Improved Damage Tolerance Properties of Aerospace Structures by the Addition of Carbon Nanotubes, by Petros Karapappas and PanayotaTsotra.- Environmental degradation of carbon nanotube hybrid aerospace composites, by Nektaria-Marianthi Barkoula.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 940178468X
• ISBN13: 9789401784689
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"