Bending buckling of single-walled carbon nanotubes by atomic-scale finite element

Composites Part B: Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 202-208

  Guo, X ^a   Leung, A Y T ^a   He, X Q ^a   Jiang, H ^b   Huang, Y ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

A. Nano structures; B. Buckling; C. Computational modelling; Morphology change

Indexed keywords

BENDING (FORMING); BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); BUCKLING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MORPHOLOGY; STRAIN ENERGY;

COMPUTATIONAL MODELING; MORPHOLOGY CHANGE; STRAIN ENERGY CURVE;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 35548997852     PISSN: 13598368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2007.02.025     Document Type: Article

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