Effective mechanical and transport properties of polysiloxane matrix based composites

Abstract

The present paper describes experimental and numerical work for the evaluation of the selected effective mechanical and transport material properties of polysiloxane matrix based composites. Three different material systems including carbon, basalt and glass plain weave textile reinforcements are first studied experimentally with emphasis on the influence of processing temperature, number of reinforcement layers and the resulting porosity. The Mori-Tanaka averaging scheme is then selected for the numerical evaluation of effective electric conductivities adopting the standard bottom-up hierarchical homogenization.