Strain-rate and temperature dependent plastic yield in carbon nanotubes from ab initio calculations

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 2775-2777

  Dumitrica, Traian ^a   Yakobson, Boris I ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION BARRIER; BOND ROTATIONS; TRANSITION STATE (TS); WRAPPING ANGLES;

CHEMICAL BONDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEATION; OPTIMIZATION; PLASTICS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STRAIN; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMODYNAMICS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 2342626603     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1695630     Document Type: Article

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