The Attitude of Variation of Elastic Modules in Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes: Nonlinear Mass-Spring Model

Subject Areas : Engineering

A.R Golkarian ¹ , M Jabbarzadeh ²

1 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mashhad branch, Islamic Azad University
2 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mashhad branch, Islamic Azad University

Received: 2012-01-17 Accepted : 2012-03-29 Published : 2012-03-30

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