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Elastic Properties of Carbon-Based Nanoscopic Structures

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Despite the computational efficiency and the reasonable accuracy associated with the use of nonlocal elasticity theory, it requires a prior knowledge of the mechanical properties (e.g. elastic constants) and physical dimensions (e.g. effective thickness) of the system in order for the theory to be applied properly. Furthermore, there is no consent among different researchers regarding the choice of the nonlocal parameter. There has been disagreement on the adopted values of the nonlocal parameter and those of the mechanical properties, and as a result a number of inconsistencies are observed in the literature.

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    Esmaeal Ghavanloo & Seyed Ahmad Fazelzadeh

  2. Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

    Hashem Rafii-Tabar

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Ghavanloo, E., Rafii-Tabar, H., Fazelzadeh, S.A. (2019). Elastic Properties of Carbon-Based Nanoscopic Structures. In: Computational Continuum Mechanics of Nanoscopic Structures. Springer Tracts in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11650-7_6

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