New insights on nonlocal spherical shell model and its application to free vibration of spherical fullerene molecules

• Published in: International journal of mechanical sciences Vol. 161-162; p. 105046
• Main Authors: Ghavanloo, Esmaeal, Rafii-Tabar, Hashem, Fazelzadeh, S. Ahmad
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.10.2019
• Subjects: Axisymmetric free vibration; Fullerene molecule; Nonlocal model; Spherical shell; Spherical shell; Nonlocal model; Axisymmetric free vibration; Fullerene molecule

•A new nonlocal spherical shell model is developed for free vibration of spherical nanoshells.•An explicit closed-form solution for the axisymmetric free vibration is presented.•The method is compared against existing numerical and experimental results.•Results show that the nonlocal parameter does...