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Catalin Picu
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| Affiliation | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| Biography | Catalin Picu received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania, in 1989. He then joined the faculty of the same institution working in the area of Solid Mechanics. In 1992 he entered the PhD program in Applied Mechanics at Dartmouth College from where he obtained his degree in 1995. Shortly after, Dr. Picu joined the Solid Mechanics group at Brown University, where he worked until coming to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a faculty member in August 1998. |
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Multiscale Modeling of the Mechanical Behavior of Polymer-Based Nanocomposites
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26 Aug. 2004 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Catalin Picu
Polymers filled with nanoscale fillers (carbon nanotubes or nanoparticles) exhibit enhanced properties compared with the neat polymer and with the polymer filled with micron-sized fillers at same volume fraction. Most interestingly, combinations of exceptional properties may be obtained as, for …