Jiadi Fan¹, Alexandros Anastassiou², Christopher Macosko³, Ellad Tadmor^1*

1 Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States

2 Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Patras and FORTH-ICE/HT, GR 26504, Patras, Greece

3 Department of Chemistry Engineering and Material Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States

* Corresponding authors emails: tadmor@umn.edu

DOI10.24435/materialscloud:d4-bj [version v1]

Publication date: Dec 23, 2020

How to cite this record

Jiadi Fan, Alexandros Anastassiou, Christopher Macosko, Ellad Tadmor, Molecular dynamics based cohesive law for epoxy-graphene interfaces, Materials Cloud Archive 2020.172 (2020), https://doi.org/10.24435/materialscloud:d4-bj

Description

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are performed to obtain mode I and II fracture energies and cohesive laws for bulk epoxy and interfaces formed between epoxy and single-layer graphene (SLG), multilayer graphene (MLG), and multilayer graphene oxide (MLGO). The elastic moduli and ultimate tensile and shear strengths of epoxy--graphene interfaces are calculated from uniaxial tension and simple shear loadings. The results show that Young's modulus and the ultimate tensile strength increase relative to bulk epoxy, whereas the shear modulus and ultimate shear strength are reduced. Failure of epoxy--graphene interfaces in tension occurs due to the formation of voids in the epoxy. Failure in shear is due to tangential slipping at the interface. Under mixed mode conditions, the shear modulus and shear strength decrease with increasing tensile load. The critical energy release rate G_c for the studied epoxy--SLG/MLG/MLGO systems are obtained using a continuum fracture mechanics approach and are found to be significantly lower than for bulk epoxy. All of the results are combined to define mode I and II cohesive laws for bulk epoxy and epoxy--SLG/MLG/MLGO interfaces that can be used in theoretical models and numerical methods, such as finite elements, that employ cohesive zones.

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datafile.tar.gz MD5md5:5b1f6c18e9ba3def0167c376b284ddf7	83.8 MiB	LAMMPS data files used in all simulations in this work.
README.txt MD5md5:d05162d1902481a30600eff5e6eeff4c	802 Bytes	README

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Keywords

molecular dynamics simulation cohesive law graphene reinforced epoxy composite