Derivation of the young's and shear moduli of single-walled carbon nanotubes through a computational homogenization approach

International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 97-118

  El Khoury, Elie ^a   Messager, Tanguy ^b   Cartraud, Patrice ^a  

^a ECOLE CENTRALE DE NANTES   (France)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Helical symmetry; Homogenization; Periodic structures; Shear modulus; SWCNTs; Young's modulus

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; COMPUTATION THEORY; ELASTIC MODULI; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HOMOGENIZATION METHOD; NANOTUBES; PERIODIC STRUCTURES; SHEAR STRAIN; YARN;

COMPUTATIONAL HOMOGENIZATION; FINITE-ELEMENT APPROACH; HELICAL SYMMETRY; HOMOGENIZATION THEORY; MECHANICAL SENSITIVITY; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWCNTS); STRUCTURAL MECHANICS MODELS; SWCNTS;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 79959860950     PISSN: 15431649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/IntJMultCompEng.v9.i1.80     Document Type: Article

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