Role of intertube spacing in the pullout forces of double-walled carbon nanotubes

Materials and Design

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2197-2201

  Tserpes, K I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LOADS (FORCES); VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

DOUBLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE; INTERTUBE SPACING; LENNARD-JONES POTENTIAL; PULLOUT FORCES;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LOADS (FORCES); MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

EID: 34249022097     PISSN: 02613069     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2006.07.002     Document Type: Article

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