Load transfer mechanism in carbon nanotube ropes

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1561-1569

  Qian, Dong ^a   Liu, Wing Kam ^b   Ruoff, Rodney S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

A. Carbon fibers; A. Nanostructures; B. Mechanical properties; B. Modeling; C. Computational simulation

Indexed keywords

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SURFACE TENSION;

SINGLE WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCNT);

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON FIBER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LOADING; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; ROPE; TWIST;

EID: 0042346317     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0266-3538(03)00064-2     Document Type: Article

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