Group velocity of wave propagation in carbon nanotubes

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 464, Issue 2094, 2008, Pages 1423-1438

  Wang, Lifeng ^a   Guo, Wanlin ^a   Hu, Haiyan ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Cylindrical shell; Group velocity; Non local elasticity; Timoshenko beam

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; ELASTICITY; GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION; MOLECULAR MODELING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CYLINDRICAL SHELLS; NON-LOCAL ELASTICITY; TIMOSHENKO BEAMS; WAVE NUMBERS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 42349090659     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2007.0349     Document Type: Article

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