A shell theory for chiral single-wall carbon nanotubes

DOI10.1016/J.EUROMECHSOL.2013.12.007MaRDI QIDQ1669408zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Antonino Favata, Paolo Podio-Guidugli

Publication date 3 September 2018

Published in European Journal of Mechanics. A. Solids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.6828

zbMATH Keywords

carbon nanotubeschiralityshell theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Micromechanical theories (74A60) Crystalline structure (74E15) Shells (74K25)

Abstract: In this paper, we propose a characterization of the mechanical response of the linearly elastic shell we associate to a single-wall carbon nanotube of arbitrary chirality. In Bajaj et al. 2013, we gave such a characterization in the case of zigzag and armchair nanotubes; in particular, we showed that the orthotropic response we postulated for the associated shells is to become isotropic in the graphene-limit, that is, when the shell radius grows bigger and bigger. Here we give an explicit recipe to construct the generally anisotropic response of the shell associated to a nanotube of any chirality in terms of the response of the shell associated to a related zigzag or armchair nanotube. The expected coupling of mechanical effects that anisotropy entrains is demonstrated in the case of a torsion problem, where the axial extension accompanying twist is determined analytically and found in good agreement with the available experimental data.

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