Can a single-wall carbon nanotube be modeled as a thin shell?

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2213-2224

  Peng, J ^a   Wu, J ^a   Hwang, K C ^a   Song, J ^b   Huang, Y ^c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Order of error; Orthotropic; Single wall carbon nanotubes; Thickness; Thin shell

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); ELASTIC MODULI; MOLECULAR MODELING; RIGIDITY; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); STRAIN RATE;

ATOMIC SPACING; FINITE DEFORMATION SHELL THEORY; ORDER OF ERROR; ORTHOTROPIC THIN SHELLS; SHELL THICKNESS;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 42649112383     PISSN: 00225096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2008.01.004     Document Type: Article

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