Buckling analysis of multi-walled carbon nanotubes under combined loading considering the effect of small length scale

Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 429-439

  Ghorbanpour Arani, A ^a   Rahmani, R ^a   Arefmanesh, A ^a   Golabi, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASHAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Buckling; Carbon nanotubes; Continuum shell model; Elastic medium; Small length scale; Van der Waals interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 49249132486     PISSN: 1738494X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12206-007-1045-2     Document Type: Article

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