Mechanical properties modeling of carbon single-walled nanotubes: A finite element method

Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 298-318

  Ghasemi Nejhad, Mehrdad N ^a   Askari, Davood ^a  

^a University of Hawaii at Manoa   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon network; Carbon single walled nanotube; Carbon unit cell; Finite element model; Poisson's ratio; Young's modulus

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULI; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; POISSON RATIO;

CARBON NETWORK; CARBON SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE; CARBON UNIT CELL;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 27644472363     PISSN: 15461955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/jctn.2005.115     Document Type: Article

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