TY - JFULL AU - Kaveh PourAkbar Saffar and Nima JamilPour and Ahmad Raeisi Najafi and Gholamreza Rouhi and Ahmad Reza Arshi and Abdolhossein Fereidoon PY - 2008/12/ TI - A Finite Element Model for Estimating Young-s Modulus of Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Composites Incorporating Elastic Cross-Links T2 - International Journal of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering SP - 1208 EP - 1212 VL - 2 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/14826 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 23, 2008 N2 - The presence of chemical bonding between functionalized carbon nanotubes and matrix in carbon nanotube reinforced composites is modeled by elastic beam elements representing covalent bonding characteristics. Neglecting other reinforcing mechanisms in the composite such as relatively weak interatomic Van der Waals forces, this model shows close results to the Rule of Mixtures model-s prediction for effective Young-s modulus of a Representative Volume Element of composite for small volume fractions (~1%) and high aspect ratios (L/D>200) of CNTs. ER -