Modeling the rheological properties of highly nano-filled polymers

dc.citation.epage2824en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber19en_US
dc.citation.spage2813en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber51en_US
dc.contributor.authorKourki, Hajiren_US
dc.contributor.authorMortezaei, Mehrzaden_US
dc.contributor.authorFamili, Mohammad Hossein Naviden_US
dc.contributor.authorMalekipirbazari, Miladen_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-12T11:01:35Z
dc.date.available2018-04-12T11:01:35Z
dc.date.issued2017en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of Industrial Engineeringen_US
dc.description.abstractOrganic and inorganic materials are usually added to polymers in order to achieve some benefits such as reducing the product cost, as well as achieving higher modulus and strength. Addition of these materials would change polymers’ behavior. Adding nano-materials to polymers on the other hand is a new challenge in the field of polymer composites where previous studies were unable to achieve good correlation with nano-composites at higher particle volume fractions. In this research, Yamamoto network theory is developed to investigate the behavior of highly nano-filled systems. For this purpose, five different types of sub-chain and two types of junctions are considered and the effect of particle size, concentration, and the model parameters in association with the behavior of the junctions are studied. Moreover, some experiments are performed on polystyrene filled with nano-silica at different particle size and concentration values in frequency mod in the linear region. At last, we compared the results of our final model with the experiments in order to evaluate its accuracy, which confirmed a very good agreement. © 2016, © The Author(s) 2016.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0021998316678473en_US
dc.identifier.issn0021-9983
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/37059
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherSAGE Publications Ltden_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021998316678473en_US
dc.source.titleJournal of Composite Materialsen_US
dc.subjectModelingen_US
dc.subjectNanocompositesen_US
dc.subjectNetwork theoryen_US
dc.subjectParticle size and particle concentrationen_US
dc.subjectRheologyen_US
dc.titleModeling the rheological properties of highly nano-filled polymersen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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