... acts as the sensor. This study explores the idea of developing a piezoelectric nanocomposite in which bone cement is the primary material. The specialized piezoelectric nanocomposite is developed by adding barium titanate (BT) nanoparticles to the typical components of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA...

... of dynamic excitation on transient piezoresistive behavior in nanocomposite structures. Specifically, an electromagnetic shaker is used to inject highly-controlled planar strain wave packets into a slender prismatic carbon nanofiber (CNF)-modified epoxy rod. Resistance measurements are then taken as the wave...

... from a remote source. This is an important gap in the state of the art for two reasons: One, coupling the self-sensing nature of nanocomposites with general elastodynamics is a possible pathway to enabling the study of full-field dynamics (i.e. using the piezoresistive effect to study internal dynamics...

... Abstract In recent years carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been widely used for the realization of polymeric matrix nanocomposites for strain monitoring applications in civil, biomedical and aerospace engineering. In fact, by embedding CNTs in an insulated polymer matrix, it is possible to realize...

... plays an important role in increasing the effective dielectric properties of the composites. Therefore, unlike prior efforts, this work will focus on the effect of filler aspect ratio on the dielectric properties of the bulk nanocomposite. Nanocomposites were synthesized using lead zirconate titanate...