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Design of lead-free PVDF/CNT/BaTiO3 piezocomposites for sensing and energy harvesting: The role of polycrystallinity, nanoadditives, and anisotropy
(IOP Publishing Ltd, 2020-01)
Lead-free piezoelectric composites with polymeric matrices offer a scalable and eco-friendly solution to sensing and energy harvesting applications. Piezoelectric polymers such as PVDF are particularly interesting because ...
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Lead-free piezocomposites with CNT-modified matrices: Accounting for agglomerations and molecular defects
(Elsevier, 2019-09)
Piezoelectric matrix-inclusion composites based on lead-free ceramics have attracted attention due to the possibility of manufacturing environmentally friendly devices using scalable emerging technologies such as 3D printing. ...
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Analytical expressions to estimate the effective piezoelectric tensor of a textured polycrystal for any crystal symmetry
(Elsevier, 2020-12)
This work introduces a set of analytical expressions that simplify the procedure for obtaining closed-form formulas to estimate the effective piezoelectric properties of polycrystalline aggregates formed by crystals of all ...
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Bending and free vibration analysis of functionally graded graphene vs. carbon nanotube reinforced composite plates
(Elsevier, 2018-02)
Carbon-based nanomaterials have drawn the attention of a large section of the scientific community in recent years. Most research has focused on carbon nanotubes after some experimental studies reported outstanding ...
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Crack-induced electrical resistivity changes in cracked CNT-reinforced composites
(Elsevier, 2020-04)
Carbon nanotube (CNT)-reinforced composites exhibit a piezoresistive behavior that permits their use as sensors in novel structural health monitoring (SHM) applications, by measuring the electrical resistivity change of ...
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MWCNT/epoxy strip-like sensors for buckling detection in beam-like structures
(Elsevier, 2018-12)
Buckling of slender structures constitutes a hazardous failure mechanism that can yield partial or total collapses. Nonetheless, given that buckling failure is characterized by a highly non-linear and sudden loss of ...
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Crack detection and localization in RC beams through smart MWCNT/epoxy strip-like strain sensors
(IOP Publishing, 2018-10)
In recent years, self-sensing structural materials have drawn enormous attention of scientific community due to their potential to enable continuous monitoring of the integrity of structures. The new paradigm of smart ...
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XFEM crack growth virtual monitoring in self-sensing CNT reinforced polymer nanocomposite plates using ANSYS
(Elsevier, 2022-03)
This paper presents an eXtended Finite Element Method (XFEM)-based numerical scheme to compute electrical resistivity changes caused by the presence of cracks and the crack growth. Using the commercial finite element package ...
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Improving the performance of lead-free piezoelectric composites by using polycrystalline inclusions and tuning the dielectric matrix environment
(IOP Publishing Ltd, 2019-07)
Piezoelectric composites are a class of smart materials which can be manufactured in a scalable manner by additive processes, while catering to a wide range of applications. Recent efforts are directed towards composites ...