Mota, A. F.Loja, Amélia2019-07-082019-07-082019-06-22MOTA, A. F.; LOJA, M. A. R. – Mechanical behavior of porous functionally graded nanocomposite materials. C – Journal of Carbon Research. ISSN. 2311-5629. Vol. 5, N.º 2 (2019), pp. 1-212311-5629http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/10270Este trabalho foi financiado pelo Concurso Anual para Projetos de Investigação, Desenvolvimento, Inovação e Criação Artística (IDI&CA) 2016 do Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa. Código de referência IPL/2019/MOCHVar_ISELMaterials used in biomedical applications need to cope with a wide set of requisites, one of them being their structural adequacy to a specific application. Thus, it is important to understand their behavior under specified standard cases, namely concerning their structural performance. This objective constituted the focus of the present study, where nanocomposite functionally graded materials integrating di_erent porosity distributions were analyzed. To this purpose a set of numerical simulations based on the finite element method, reproducing American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) tensile and bending tests were considered. The results obtained show a good performance of the models implemented through their preliminary verification. It is also possible to conclude that carbon nanotubes and porosity distributions provide di_erent and opposite e_ects in the context of the nanocomposite materials analyzed.engFunctionally graded materialsCarbon nanotubesPorositiesNumerical simulation of ASTM testsjournal articlehttps://doi.org/10.3390/c5020034