Sodium montmorillonite (Na-MMT) is one of the most commonly found swelling clay
minerals with diverse engineering and technological applications. The nanomechanical …

Molecular dynamics simulations together with micromechanics method have been proven
an effective approach to assess the elastic moduli of either partially or fully exfoliated (ie …

Abstract Sodium montmorillonite (Na-MMT), a prevalent swelling clay mineral, exhibits
broad engineering and technological promise due to its unique structural and surface …

Finite element method (FEM) has been widely used for numerical simulation of hardness
tests on bulk material in order to analyze its deformation response and investigate the …

The study of polymer/clay nanocomposites has attracted major research and commercial
interests due to their superior mechanical and thermal properties to those of the neat …