Shell buckling of imperfect multiwalled carbon nanotubes - Experiments and analysis

Experimental Mechanics

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 153-161

  Guduru, Pradeep R ^a   Xia, Z ^a  

^a Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Nanoindentation; Shear coupling; Shell buckling; sp 3 bonds

Indexed keywords

SHEAR COUPLING; SHELL BUCKLING;

BUCKLING; ELASTIC MODULI; LOADS (FORCES); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NANOINDENTATION;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

BUCKLING; ELASTIC MODULI; LOADS (FORCES); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOINDENTATION;

EID: 33947385298     PISSN: 00144851     EISSN: 17412765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11340-006-7906-2     Document Type: Article

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