Predicting the Young's modulus of single-walled carbon nanotubes using finite element modeling

Journal of Applied Sciences

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1653-1657

  Mohammadpour, E ^a   Awang, M ^a   Abdullah, M Z ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Continuum mechanics; Finite element model; Morse potential functions; Single walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT); Young's modulus

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955557680     PISSN: 18125654     EISSN: 18125662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2011.1653.1657     Document Type: Article

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