Stress-deformation analysis by FEM-based computational modeling of fracture mechanics of carbon hard inclusions and reinforced composite materials

This paper reports a study of the mechanical behavior of reinforced composite nanomaterials and carbon-based hard nanoparticles/fibers such as nanotubes (MWCNTs). The nested individual layers of carbon nanoparticles/fibers are treated as single-walled frame-like structures and simulated by the molecular structural mechanics method. The volumes containing significant elements of internal submicrocrystalline and nano structure of material are investigated by numerical methods of continuum mechanics. The purpose of the research is numerical modeling of mesovolumes of such materials.