Predictions of the electrical conductivity of composites of polymers and carbon nanotubes by an artificial neural network
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Author(s)
Matos, MAS
Pinho, ST
Tagarielli, VL
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Industrial applications of conductive polymer composites with carbon nanotubes require precise tailoring of their electrical properties. While existing theoretical methods to predict the bulk conductivity require fitting to experiments and often employ power-laws valid only in the vicinity of the percolation threshold, the accuracy of numerical methods is accompanied with substantial computational efforts. In this paper we use recently developed physically-based finite element analyses to successfully train an artificial neural network to make predictions of the bulk conductivity of carbon nanotube-polymer composites at negligible computational cost.
Date Issued
2019-06
Date Acceptance
2019-03-01
Citation
Scripta Materialia, 2019, 166, pp.117-121
ISSN
1359-6462
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Start Page
117
End Page
121
Journal / Book Title
Scripta Materialia
Volume
166
Copyright Statement
© 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This manuscript is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Sponsor
Commission of the European Communities
Grant Number
642890
Subjects
0912 Materials Engineering
0913 Mechanical Engineering
Materials
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2019-03-22