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A multi-walled nanotube (MWNT)

FROM:
R. Ansari and H. Rouhi (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran),

“Nonlocal Flügge shell model for thermal buckling of multi-walled carbon nanotubes with layerwise boundary conditions”, Journal of Thermal Stresses, Vol. 35, pp. 326-341, 2012, DOI: 10.1080/01495739.2012.663683

ABSTRACT: Presented herein is the thermal buckling analysis of multi-walled carbon nanotubes on the basis of nonlocal Flügge shell model capturing small scale effects. Based upon the continuum mechanics, a multiple-shell model is adopted in which the nested tubes are coupled with each other through the van der Waals interlayer interaction. The utilized van der Waals model incorporating the interlayer interactions between any two layers, whether adjacent or non-adjacent is curvature dependent. To analytically solve the problem, the Rayleigh-Ritz method was implemented to the variational form equivalent to the Flügge type equations. The present analysis provides the possibility of considering different combinations of layerwise boundary conditions. It is shown that the shell-like thermal buckling is significantly sensitive to the nonlocal parameter variation, whereas the column-like themal buckling remains unaffected when the nonlocal parameter is varied.

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