A COSSERAT-TYPE PLATE THEORY AND ITS APPLICATION TO CARBON NANOTUBE MICROSTRUCTURE
- 1 Civil Engineering Laboratory, Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tunis, B.P.37, Le belvédère 1002, Tunis, Tunisia
- 2 CESAME, UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Abstract
The predictive capabilities of plate and shell theories greatly depend on their underlying kinematic assumptions. In this study, we develop a Cosserat-type elastic plate theory which accounts for rotations around the normal to the mid-surface plane (so-called drilling rotations). Internal loads, equilibrium equations, boundary conditions and constitutive equations are derived. The case of a Single Walled carbon Nanotube (SWNT) modelled as a Cosserat medium is taken here as a reference example. Material parameters are identified and the proposed theory is used to solve analytically the problem of a polymer-SWNT composite tube under torsion. Predictions such as an absolute size effect are compared to those of the classical Cauchy-de Saint-Venant results.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajassp.2014.1255.1273
Copyright: © 2014 Abdellatif Selmi, Hedi Hassis, Issam Doghri and Hatem Zenzri. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
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Keywords
- Plate Theory
- Drilling Rotation
- Cosserat Medium
- Carbon Nanotube
- Composite Microstructure