Nanoscale fracture of tetrahedral amorphous carbon by molecular dynamics: Flaw size insensitivity

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Lu, Qiang ^a   Marks, Nigel ^b   Schatz, George C ^c   Belytschko, Ted ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 38549169455     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.014109     Document Type: Article

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