Electromechanical stiffening of rods and tubes

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 26, 2004, Pages 5467-5469

  Zandi, Roya ^a,b   Golestanian, Ramin ^c,d   Rudnick, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN BASIC SCIENCES IASBS   (Iran)

^d INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS IPM   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL BUCKLING FORCES; ELASTIC CHARGED RODS; ELECTROMECHANICAL STIFFENING; ROD LENGTH;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BUCKLING; DEFORMATION; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; ELECTROSTATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERMITTIVITY; STIFFNESS; VECTORS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 3242658297     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1757018     Document Type: Article

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