Investigation of chirality and diameter effects on the Young's modulus of carbon nanotubes using non-linear potentials

Composite Structures

Volumn 94, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2460-2464

  Rafiee, Roham ^a   Heidarhaei, Meghdad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Finite element analysis; Morse potential; Non linear spring; Young's modulus

Indexed keywords

CURRENT MODELS; DIAMETER EFFECT; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; INVESTIGATE EFFECTS; LINEAR FINITE ELEMENT MODEL; NON-LINEAR FINITE ELEMENT MODEL; PARAMETRIC STUDY; SPRING ELEMENT; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CHIRALITY; ELASTIC MODULI; ENANTIOMERS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MORSE POTENTIAL;

ELASTICITY;

EID: 84860841579     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2012.03.010     Document Type: Article

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