Title

Effect of the van der Waals interaction on analysis of double-walled carbon nanotubes

Authors

Authors

Q. Wang

Comments

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Int. J. Struct. Stab. Dyn.

Keywords

carbon nanotubes; double-walled nanotubes; van der Waals interaction; continuum models; kink instability; MODELS; Engineering, Civil; Engineering, Mechanical; Mechanics

Abstract

This paper presents the research on the analysis of the van der Waals (vdW) interaction on double-walled carbon nanotubes (DWNTs) via an elastic beam model. The parametric studies on the size of DWNTs are conducted to show the effect of vdW interaction on the analysis of both a cantilever DWNT subjected to force at the free tip and a DWNT subjected to pure bending. In addition, the kink instability for the cantilever DWNT is analyzed based on the proposed beam model. It is hoped that the research will provide mechanical models for the analysis of both single-walled nanotubes (SWNTs) and multi-walled nanotubes (MWNTs), as well as for kink instability analysis of carbon nanotubes (CNTs).

Journal Title

International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics

Volume

5

Issue/Number

3

Publication Date

1-1-2005

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

457

Last Page

474

WOS Identifier

WOS:000232647800007

ISSN

0219-4554

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