Axial buckling of multi-walled carbon nanotubes and nanopeapods

• Published in: European journal of mechanics, A, Solids Vol. 30; no. 6; pp. 794 - 806
• Main Authors: Chan, Yue, Thamwattana, Ngamta, Hill, James M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier Masson SAS 01.11.2011; Elsevier
• Subjects: Biological and medical sciences; Biosensors; Biotechnology; Buckling; Carbon nanoubtues; Cross-disciplinary physics: materials science; rheology; Curvature; Donnell’s equilibrium equation; Euler–Bernoulli beam theory; Exact sciences and technology; Fullerenes; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Fundamental areas of phenomenology (including applications); Materials science; Mathematical analysis; Metallofullerenes; Methods. Procedures. Technologies; Nanocomposites; Nanomaterials; Nanopeapods; Nanoscale materials and structures: fabrication and characterization; Nanostructure; Nanotubes; Physics; Solid mechanics; Structural and continuum mechanics; van der Waals interactions; Various methods and equipments; Walls; Donnell’s equilibrium equation; Carbon nanoubtues; Euler–Bernoulli beam theory; Metallofullerenes; van der Waals interactions; Nanopeapods; Buckling; Carbon nanotubes; Molecular interaction; Stability criterion; Bernoulli Euler model; Donnell's equilibrium equation; Modeling; Metallofullerene; Double wall; Euler-Bernoulli beam theory; Nanostructure; Carbon; Equilibrium equation; Postbuckling; Beam(mechanics); Measure theory; Multiwalled nanotube; Van der Waals interaction; Fullerenes; Casimir effect; Curvature; Nanotechnology

In this paper, we investigate both pre- and post-buckling behaviors of multi-walled carbon nanotubes and multi-walled carbon nanopeapods by incorporating into the applied forces of a prescribed beam equation both van der Waals interactions between the adjacent walls of the nanotubes and the interact...