TY  - JOUR
TI  - Vibration analysis of multi-walled carbon nanotubes embedded in elastic medium
EP  - 159
N2  - We propose a method to estimate the natural frequencies of the multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) embedded in an elastic medium. Each of the nested tubes is treated as an individual bar interacting with the adjacent nanotubes through the inter-tube Van der Waals forces. The effect of the elastic medium is introduced through an elastic model. The mathematical model is finally reduced to an eigen value problem and the eigen value problem is solved to arrive at the inter-tube resonances of the MWCNTs. Variation of the natural frequencies with different parameters are studied. The estimated results from the present method are compared with the literature and results are observed to be in close agreement.
A1  - Budarapu, Pattabhi R.
A1  - Yb, SudhirSastry
A1  - Javvaji, Brahmanandam
A1  - Mahapatra, D. Roy
SN  - 2095-2449
VL  - 8
PB  - Higher Education Press
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11709-014-0247-9
IS  - 2
KW  - natural frequencies; multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTS); elastic medium
SP  - 151
ID  - eprints2647
AV  - none
JF  - Frontiers of Structural and Civil Engineering
Y1  - 2014/06//
ER  -