Torsional buckling and postbuckling equilibrium path of double-walled carbon nanotubes

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 113-120

  Yao, Xiaohu ^a   Han, Qiang ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

A. Nanotube; B. Buckling; B. Postbuckling; C. van der Waals force; D. Continuum mechanics

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; TORQUE; TORSIONAL STRESS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

BOUNDARY-LAYER THEORY; CONTINUUM ELASTIC DOUBLE-SHELL MODEL; DOUBLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

BUCKLING; CARBON; ELASTIC PROPERTY; LOADING (TESTING); MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MECHANICS; NANOTUBE; TORQUE;

EID: 35448967767     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2007.05.025     Document Type: Article

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