Single-walled carbon nanotube modelling based on one-and two-dimensional Cosserat continua

This research aims to study the mechanical properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes. In order to overcome the difficulties of spanning multi-scales from atomistic field to macroscopic space, the Cauchy-Born rule is applied to link the deformation of atom lattice vectors at the atomic level with...

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Main Author: Zhang, Yu
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2011
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12211/