Unique buckling responses of multi-walled carbon nanotubes incorporated as torsion springs

Carbon

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1697-1701

  Jeong, Byeong Woo ^a,b   Sinnott, Susan B ^b  

^a Yeungjin College   (South Korea)

^b J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING REGIME; BUCKLING RESPONSE; BUCKLING STRENGTH; CLASSICAL MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; HARD CORES; POSTBUCKLING; TORSION SPRINGS; TORSIONAL STIFFNESS;

CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); TORSIONAL STRESS;

BUCKLING;

EID: 77249158323     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2009.12.048     Document Type: Article

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