Modeling of elastic buckling of carbon nanotubes by molecular structural mechanics approach

Mechanics of Materials

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1047-1055

  Li, Chunyu ^a   Chou, Tsu Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atomistic modeling; Buckling; Carbon nanotube; Eigenvalue; Nanomaterial; Nanomechanics

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BEAMS AND GIRDERS; BENDING (DEFORMATION); BUCKLING; COMPRESSION TESTING; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELASTICITY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

ATOMISTIC MODELING; ELASTIC BUCKLING;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 2942630866     PISSN: 01676636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mechmat.2003.08.009     Document Type: Article

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