Sanders shell model for buckling of single-walled carbon nanotubes with small aspect ratio

Composite Structures

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1683-1691

  Silvestre, N ^a   Wang, C M ^b   Zhang, Y Y ^c   Xiang, Y ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Critical strain; Donnell shell theory; Local buckling; Rotation treatment; Sanders shell theory; Short carbon nanotubes

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; BUCKLING; CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOTUBES; SANDERS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); STRAIN; YARN;

BUCKLING BEHAVIOUR; CRITICAL STRAINS; LOCAL BUCKLING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; SHELL THEORY; SHORT CARBON NANOTUBES; SMALL ASPECT RATIO; THIN SHELL THEORY;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 79955468800     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2011.01.004     Document Type: Article

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