This paper reports on an investigation of the critical parameters which determine the
electrical and electromechanical properties of carbon nanotube (CNT) nanocomposites. For …

A particle-level simulation method is employed to study the dynamics of flowing suspensions
of rigid and flexible fibers. Fibers are modeled as chains of prolate spheroids connected …

Simulation results for the motion of flexible fibers modeled as rigid spheres connected by
ball and socket joints are presented. Simulations of isolated stiff fibers reproduce such …

Discontinuous fiber composites (DFC) such as carbon fiber sheet molding compounds (CF-
SMC) are increasingly used in the automotive industry for manufacturing lightweight parts …

Publisher Summary This chapter analyzes the general behavior of fiber suspension flows,
with a particular attention focusing on the decoupled prediction of the fiber orientation …

A rod-chain model was used to study the dynamics of a long flexible fiber which is
suspended in a Newtonian fluid. It was shown that the fiber exhibited different apparent …

The processing of a glass fibre-reinforced polypropylene in the presence of a chemical
blowing agent was found to dramatically reduce the occurrence of fibre breakage during …

A numerical method to simulate fibre suspensions in transient and steady state shear flows
for concentrated solutions is reported, which takes into account short-range hydrodynamic …

This study simulates the breakage behavior of glass fibers subjected to simple shear flow by
modeling an individual fiber as a chain of connected spheres and considering fiber-fiber …

The addition of fibres can improve the performance of cementitious materials in the
hardened state. With an optimized mixture composition and controlled rheology and quality …