Torsional buckling of a double-walled carbon nanotube embedded in an elastic medium |
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| Authors: | Qiang Han Guoxing Lu |
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| Affiliation: | a Department of Mechanics, College of Traffic and Communications, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, PR China;b School of Engineering and Science, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Vic 3122, Australia |
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| Abstract: | The torsional buckling of a double-walled carbon nanotube embedded in an elastic medium is studied in this paper. The effects of surrounding elastic medium and van der Waals forces between the inner and outer nanotubes are taken into account. Using continuum mechanics, an elastic double-shell model is presented for the torsional buckling of a double-walled carbon nanotube. Based on the model, a condition is derived in terms of the buckling modes of the shell and the parameters describing the effect of van der Waals interaction and surrounding elastic medium. A simplified analysis is also carried out estimate the critical torque for torsional buckling of the double-walled carbon nanotube. |
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| Keywords: | Nanotube Buckling Winkler model van der Waals force |
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