ABSTRACT
Graphene is one of the most suitable nanomaterials to enhance the mechanical properties of the base material. In the present work graphene has been considered as a filler material to enhance the mechanical properties of different base materials namely; gold (Au), aluminum (Al), copper (Cu), iron (Fe) and magnesium (Mg). The analytical as well as 3-dimensional modeling based finite element analysis based simulation approaches are considered to estimate the elastic modulus of graphene based nanocomposites. The square representative volume element (RVE) with variation in width as well as length of graphene has been considered for the analysis. The effect of variation in width of graphene on elastic modulus without in terphase is not much significant irrespective of matrix materials, when interphase is considered between nanofiller and matrix material the elastic modulus increases with increase in width. Similarly, as length of graphene increases elastic modulus increases as. Overall consideration of interphase between nanofiller and matrix increases the elastic modulus of nanocomposites.
