Mechanical Response of Carbon Nanotube Bundle to Lateral Compression

Effective Mechanical Properties of Nanocomposites Reinforced With Carbon Nanotubes Bundle

Nanocomposites made of Carbon Nanotube (CNT) bundles have attracted researchers’ attention due to their unusual properties such as: light weight, flexibility and stiffness.  In this paper, the effects of straight and rope-shaped bundles on nanocomposite effective mechanical properties are investigated.  First, FEA models are created consisting of CNTs with different shapes of straight and rope-...

Diameter dependent wall deformations during the compression of a carbon nanotube bundle

U. D. Venkateswaran, D. L. Masica, G. U. Sumanasekera, C. A. Furtado, U. J. Kim, and P. C. Eklund Department of Physics, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan 48309, USA Department of Physics, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40292, USA Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA ~Received 17 October 2003; published 31 December ...

The response of carbon nanotube ensembles to fluid flow: Applications to mechanical property measurement and diagnostics

to mechanical property measurement and diagnostics C. P. Deck, C. Ni, K. S. Vecchio, and P. R. Bandaru Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of California, San Diego, California 92093, USA Department of NanoEngineering, University of California, San Diego, California 92093-0448, USA Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, Californ...

Mechanical detection of carbon nanotube resonator vibrations.

Bending-mode vibrations of carbon nanotube resonators were mechanically detected in air at atmospheric pressure by means of a novel scanning force microscopy method. The fundamental and higher order bending eigenmodes were imaged at up to 3.1 GHz with subnanometer resolution in vibration amplitude. The resonance frequency and the eigenmode shape of multiwall nanotubes are consistent with the el...

Mechanical Properties of Sharpened Carbon Nanotube Tips