Interacting Smart Composite Structures and Nano-Composites

对全球复合材料市场的分析预测，复合材料市场将出现显著增长。未来竞争优势的关键在于智能复合材料和结构的发展。这需要在严格的建模和实验技术的进步。现有的力学模型通常基于近似，导致有效和局部性质的结果错误。它们的精确计算对精细化分析和优化设计至关重要。目前的建议旨在解决这些问题。它包括在智能复合材料和纳米复合材料的建模、设计和优化、加工和测试方面的严格分析和实验研究。它包括考虑智能复合材料的非线性、各向异性、相互作用、耦合场和驱动特性的微观力学模型的发展。智能结构的主要优势在于其与环境相互作用的适应性。它们以分布载荷和流体与气体相互作用的形式承受外部载荷（即航空航天用空气，海军和石油/天然气用流体/气体）。外部载荷引起变形，触发嵌入智能结构中的执行器的动作，进而影响外部条件。因此，分析智能复合材料与环境的相互作用是至关重要的。***本文在考虑智能复合材料结构局部单元胞尺度的外载荷集成微建模方面做出了非常重要的创新。特别是，这种方法允许对相互作用的智能复合材料外壳和活动表面进行微观力学建模。这些结果将导致航空航天，海军和石油天然气应用的突破性进展。***特别关注不断发展的纳米复合材料。基于量子点和量子线的半导体纳米复合材料使科学技术的应用前所未有。新的严格的微观力学模型将用于量子点和量子线基纳米复合材料和碳纳米管增强纳米复合材料。这些开创性的结果将具有变革性的价值：它们将改变我们对新兴半导体纳米复合材料特性的广泛理解。***本提案的实验部分将包括新型碳纳米管横向增强纳米复合材料和嵌入压电陶瓷纤维的智能拉伸复合材料的加工和测试。将开发新的加工技术来制造具有最佳定制性能的复合材料。这将大大提高它们的完整性和功能。****拟议的研究将代表重大的基础贡献，并将产生对加拿大工业具有高度实际重要性的结果。它将为HQP提供优秀的培训

The analysis of global market for composites predicts remarkable growth. The key to future competitive advantage is in development of smart composite materials and structures. This necessitates advancements in rigorous modeling and experimental techniques. Existing mechanical models are commonly based on approximations leading to wrong results for the effective and local properties. Their accurate calculation is essential for the refined analysis and optimal design.***The present proposal is aimed to solve these issues. It consists of rigorous analytical and experimental studies in modeling, design and optimization, processing and testing of smart composites and nano-composites. It includes development of micromechanical models taking into account non-linearity, anisotropy, interaction, coupled fields and actuation properties of smart composites.***The key advantage of smart structures is in their adaptability in interaction with the environment. They are subjected to external loading in form of distributed loads and fluid and gas interactions (i.e., air for aerospace and fluid/gas for naval and oil/gas applications). External loading causes deformations that trigger action of actuators embedded in smart structures, which in their turn influence external conditions. Therefore it is foremost important to analyze smart composites interacting with the environment.***The present proposal makes a very significant innovation in considering micro-modeling in ensemble with external loading at the local unit cell scale of smart composite structures. In particular, this approach allows micromechanical modeling of interacting smart composite shells and active surfaces. These results will lead to the groundbreaking advances in the aerospace, naval and oil & gas applications.***Special attention is paid to the evolving nano-composites. Quantum dots- and Quantum wires-based semiconductor nano-composites enable applications to science and technology never seen before. New rigorous micromechanical models will be developed for Quantum dot- and Quantum wire-based nano-composites and for carbon nanotube-reinforced nano-composites. These pioneering results will have a transformative value: they will change our broad understanding of the properties of emerging semiconductor nano-composites.***The experimental part of present proposal will encompass processing and testing of novel carbon nanotube transversely reinforced nano-composites and smart pulturded composites with embedded piezoceramic fibers. New processing technologies will be developed to fabricate composites with optimally tailored properties. That will significantly enhance their integrity and functionality.****The proposed research will represent major fundamental contribution and it will generate results of a high practical importance for the Canadian industry. It will provide excellent training for HQP.**