DESIGNING AN IMPROVED INTERFACE IN GRAPHENE/POLYMER COMPOSITES THROUGH MACHINE LEARNING

Autor: PRATHAMESH P. DESHPANDE, KAREN J. DEMILLE, AOWABIN RAHMAN, SUSANTA GHOSH, ASHLEY D. SPEAR, GREGORY M. ODEGARD
Rok vydání: 2022
Zdroj: American Society for Composites 2022.
DOI: 10.12783/asc37/36458
Popis: The matrix-reinforcement interface has been studied extensively to enhance the performance of polymer matrix composites (PMCs). One commonly practiced approach is functionalization of the reinforcement, which significantly improves the interfacial interaction. A molecular dynamics (MD) and machine learning (ML) workflow is proposed to identify the optimal functionalization parameters that result in improved mechanical performance of a 3-layer graphene nanoplatelet (GNP)/ bismaleimide (BMI) nanocomposite. MD is used to generate the training set for a graph convolutional neural network (GCN). This article reports the MD methodology and an example mechanical response from a pull-out simulation. Upcoming work in the proposed MD-ML workflow for designing a nanocomposite with improved mechanical performance is also discussed.
Databáze: OpenAIRE