Stability of multi-walled carbon nanotubes under combined bending and axial compression loading

Nanotechnology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 815-823

  Wang, X ^a   Sun, B ^a   Yang, H K ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING (FORMING); BUCKLING; COMPACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; STRESSES; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

AXIAL COMPRESSION LOADING; MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; MULTIPLE-SHELL MODEL; NUMERICAL EXAMPLES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 31044448933     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/17/3/034     Document Type: Article

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