Buckling behavior of single-walled carbon nanotubes and a targeted molecular mechanics approach

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Cao, Guoxin [1 ]
Chen, Xi [1 ]
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[1] Columbia Univ, Dept Civil Engn & Engn Mech, Columbia Nanomech Res Ctr, New York, NY 10027 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevB.74.165422
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T [工业技术];
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During the general (conventional) molecular mechanics (GMM) simulation of the buckling of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), the load is displacement controlled and the calculated critical buckling strain is very sensitive to the specific displacement increment and convergence threshold chosen in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, which may have led to the contradictory and diverged results in the previous studies. In this paper, a targeted-molecular mechanics (TMM) simulation method is proposed to study the buckling behavior of SWCNTs under axial compression, bending, and torsion. Comparing with the GMM method, the TMM technique is independent of the displacement increment and thus the solution is converged. The critical buckling strain computed from the TMM is higher than that from the GMM under axial compression and torsion, and the TMM results are similar to the GMM results upon bending. The TMM result approaches to the intrinsic critical buckling strain of a perfect tube; in addition, the TMM significantly reduces the computational cost and thus may be more efficient to study larger systems with atomistic simulations.
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