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effective reinforcement provided. The micromechanics model is also seen to produce
reasonable agreement with experimental data for the effective tensile modulus of com-
posites reinforced with MWCNTs and having different MWCNT volume fractions.
Effective elastic properties for CNT reinforced composites are obtained through
a variety of micromechanics techniques [76]. Using the in-plane elastic properties of
graphene, the effective properties of CNTs are calculated utilizing a composite cylin-
properties are then used in the self-consistent and Mori–Tanaka methods to obtain ef-
fective elastic properties of composites ...