Response of Agglomerated SWCNT Reinforced Nanocomposite Plate under Hygro-Thermal Loading

In this study, the hygrothermal flexural behavior of a nanocomposite plate reinforced with carbon nanotubes is analyzed. The Eshelby-Mori-Tanaka (EMT) technique, a micromechanical model based on two parameters, is used to calculate the nanocomposite plate's real mechanical properties. The model incorporates the effects of clustering. The virtual work notion from higher-order shear deformation theory (HSDT) is used to develop the governing differential equations. After that, a C0 continuous isoparametric Lagrangian FE model with seven nodal unknowns is used to apply the present method with the FEM. Creating the finite element code allows one to calculate the nanocomposite plate's deflection. To make sure that the method works, the results are compared to numerical results that have already been published. The flexural response of the nanocomposite plate with agglomerated carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is next analyzed by performing extensive parametric studies to determine the impacts of agglomeration degree, moisture, temperature, the volume percentage of CNTs, and various aspect ratio.