The asymptotic properties of random strength and compliance of single-walled carbon nanotubes using atomistic simulation

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

Volumn , Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Bhattacharya, Baidurya ^a   Lu, Qiang ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Defects (theory); Fracture (theory); Random ordered microstructures (theory); Stochastic processes (theory)

Indexed keywords

EID: 42749100163     PISSN: 17425468     EISSN: 17425468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2006/06/P06021     Document Type: Article

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