A scholarly examination of modeling techniques, characterization and processing of carbon nanotubes and their polymer composites, with a mechanical emphasis. Explains modelling approaches to carbon nanotubes, together with their application, strengths and limitations. Outlines the properties of different carbon nanotube-based composites, exploring how they are used in the mechanical and structural components. Analyses the behavior of carbon nanotube-based composites in different conditions. Carbon Nanotube-Reinforced Polymers presents state-of-the-art research in the field of modeling, characterization and processing of these materials with a mechanical emphasis. Advances in nanotechnology have led to the development of a new class of composite materials known as carbon nanotube (CNT)-reinforced polymers. The low density and high aspect ratio, together with their exceptional mechanical, electrical and thermal properties, render carbon nanotubes a good reinforcing agent for composites. This book describes analysis of CNT-reinforced polymer behavior, obtained through modeling and simulation and therefore provides insight into their future potential applications. Theoretical studies on the mechanical properties of these CNTs and also their composites are divided into atomistic modeling, continuum mechanics-based approaches including both analytical and numerical ones and also multi-scale modeling techniques. About the Editor Roham Rafiee is Associate Professor at the University of Tehran, Iran, where he founded the Composites Research Laboratory, specializing in nanocomposites. He is a member of several graduate student thesis advisory committees and also collaborating with universities worldwide including the University of Weimar, Germany and UPM, Malaysia. Dr Rafiee?s research interests focus on carbon nanotube reinforced polymers, mechanics of composite materials, design and analysis of composite structures, fatigue modelling of composite structures, finite element modelling and analysis.