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Total Pages : 32 pages
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Download or read book Equivalent-Continuum Modeling With Application to Carbon Nanotubes written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A method has been proposed for developing structure-property relationships of nano-structured materials. This method serves as a link between computational chemistry and solid mechanics by substituting discrete molecular structures with equivalent-continuum models. It has been shown that this substitution may be accomplished by equating the vibrational potential energy of a nano-structured material with the strain energy of representative truss and continuum models. As important examples with direct application to the development and characterization of single-walled carbon nanotubes and the design of nanotube-based devices, the modeling technique has been applied to determine the effective-continuum geometry and bending rigidity of a graphene sheet, A representative volume element of the chemical structure of graphene has been substituted with equivalent-truss and equivalent-continuum models. As a result, an effective thickness of the continuum model has been determined.