Scheme for the passage from atomic to continuum theory for thin films, nanotubes and nanorods

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1519-1540

  Friesecke, Gero ^a   James, Richard D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; ATOMS; NANOTUBES; THIN FILMS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

ATOMIC THEORY; BORN-OPPENHEIMER APPROXIMATION;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS;

EID: 0033872514     PISSN: 00225096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5096(99)00091-5     Document Type: Article

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