Strength of graphenes containing randomly dispersed Vacancies

Acta Mechanica

Volumn 223, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 669-678

  Tserpes, Konstantinos I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C-C BONDS; DEFECT INTERACTIONS; FAILURE STRAIN; INTERATOMIC POTENTIAL; NONLINEAR BEHAVIOR; RANDOM NUMBERS; UNIAXIAL TENSIONS; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

DEFECTS; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; TENSILE STRENGTH; TOPOLOGY;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84861902048     PISSN: 00015970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00707-011-0594-8     Document Type: Article

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