Mechanical Behavior of PLA/Clay Reinforced Nanocomposite Material Using Fe Simulations: Comparison of an Idealized Volume against the Real Electron Tomography Volume

摘要

The present work describes a methodology to implement microstructural data obtained from transmission electron microcope (TEM) tomography into finite element (FE) simulation software. In this first approach the tomographic reconstruction is treated with different software to create a 3D realistic model of the microstructure of the composite. This realistic model is compared against 2D image-based models via FE simulations in order to compare the mechanical behavior achieved with both models. After this first study the results obtained with both types of model are similar. These results are a promising starting point for the development of this novel methodology for obtaining nanocomposite FE models from TEM tomography with realistic results.