A surface Cauchy-Born model for nanoscale materials

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 68, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1072-1095

  Park, Harold S ^a   Klein, Patrick A ^b   Wagner, Gregory J ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cauchy Born; Nanoscale materials; Surface elasticity; Surface stress

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRESSES; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

CAUCHY-BORN MODEL; NANOSCALE MATERIALS; SURFACE ELASTICITY;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; STRESSES; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

EID: 33751559870     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1754     Document Type: Article

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