| Advancing the methods for structural health monitoring (SHM) of composites and controlling the material properties for adapting to existent SHM methods is important for continuous examination of damage in composites. This investigation aims to address these problems by tailoring the electrical properties of glass-epoxy composites by the addition and electric-field-induced alignment of carbon nanofillers in order to develop a new type of material, which is a suitable candidate for damage detection using electrical resistance method. As carbon nanofillers, short unfunctionalized carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and carbon black (CB) nanoparticles were used due to their low aspect ratio, which is believed to ease their motion between the glass fibers. (Abstract shortened by UMI.). |
