Nanomechanics of carbon nanotubes and composites

Applied Mechanics Reviews

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 215-229

  Srivastava, Deepak ^a   Wei, Chenyu ^a   Cho, Kyeongjae ^b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOMECHANICS; NANOTUBE POLYMER COMPOSITES; TORSIONAL MODULUS; VAN DER WAALS INTERACTION;

ALGORITHMS; BENDING (DEFORMATION); COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; ELASTIC MODULI; GLASS TRANSITION; POLYETHYLENES; STIFFNESS; STRAIN RATE; TENSILE STRESS; THERMAL EXPANSION;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 2342594118     PISSN: 00036900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1538625     Document Type: Review

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