POSTBUCKLING OF NANOCOMPOSITE PLATE REINFORCED WITH RANDOMLY ORIENTEDn AND DISPERSED CNTS MODELED THROUGH RSA TECHNIQUE

摘要

The aim of the present paper is to study the buckling and postbuckling behavior of carbon nanotube (CNT)-reinforced magnesium (Mg) nanocomposite plates. A Boolean-based random sequential adsorption (RSA) technique is employed to model a representative volume element (RVE) with randomly oriented and positioned CNTs using uniform and normal distributions. The elastic properties of the resulting nanocomposite are evaluated using that RVE. Further, the evaluated stiffness properties of CNT-Mg nanoco