Dear researcher,
Is there a chance that experimentally obtained ultimate tensile strength (UTS) of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) reinforced with nanofiller can become higher than the value of UTS calculated using rule of mixture. Using rule of mixture we calculate the UTS of composite using individual UTS values of matrix, fiber, and nanofiller. Assume the nanofiller improved the fiber-matrix interface of uniaxial composite, in that case, can the maximum strength of such uniaxial composite exceed the UTS predicted by rule of mixture?
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