Material and structural instabilities of single-wall carbon nanotubes

Acta Mechanica Sinica/Lixue Xuebao

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 285-288

  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

Carbon nanotubes; Instability

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATERIALS SCIENCE; POTENTIAL ENERGY; TENSILE TESTING;

INTERATOMIC POTENTIAL; MATERIAL INSTABILITY; NONLINEAR ATOMISTIC INTERACTIONS;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 44449171275     PISSN: 05677718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10409-008-0146-1     Document Type: Article

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