Role of MWCNTs Loading in Designing Self-Sensing and Self-Heating Structural Elements.

ABSTRACT: This work proposes nanocomposites with carbon nanotubes characterized by self-sensing and self-heating properties. Recently, a growing interest in these two properties has been found in many industrial sectors, especially in the aerospace and automotive fields. While the self-sensing function allows diagnosing the presence of micro-damage in the material thanks to the detection of residual resistance, the self-heating function is exploited to properly tune the heating performance in terms of the heating rate and final temperature values. An electrical percolation value of around 0.5% by weight of carbon nanotubes was found by electrical characterization. The AC conductivity of the nanocomposites, in the range of 100 Hz to 1 MHz, evidences that beyond a CNTs amount of 0.5% wt/wt, they are c

SUBMITTER: Guadagno L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9920374 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature