Fibrous carbon materials have been attracted many researchers' attentions. Carbon fibers
have been developed as one of the most important industrial materials for modern science …

Recently graphene, a two-dimensional, layered carbon nanomaterial, has gained attention
of the researchers working on nanomaterials due to its outstanding mechanical, thermal …

Although instrumented nanoindentation testing has been used to characterize the
mechanical properties of materials since the 1970s, the vast majority of the research …

This paper presents a critical review of the current work of experiment, theory of micro-
nanomechanics, and numerical analysis on characterizing mechanical properties of …

The interphase of fiber reinforced polymer composites is a narrow region around the fiber,
and the mechanical performance of a composite strongly depends on the properties of the …

Composites can be defined as materials that consist of two or more chemically and
physically different phases separated by a distinct interface. The different systems are …

Significant reinforcing effects that are often observed in polymer nanoparticulate composites
are usually attributed to strong interfacial interactions over extended interfaces in these …

The hardness and elastic modulus of the cellulose fiber and polypropylene (PP) matrix in a
cellulose fiber-reinforced PP composite were investigated by nanoindentation with a …

Multiscale mechanical modelling aims at predicting the failure of composites from the
fibre/matrix level up to the component scale. Existing frameworks are limited by the lack of …

This paper proposes an innovative micromechanics-based artificial neural network (ANN)
method to efficiently investigate the transverse modulus of unidirectional fibre/epoxy …