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Small Scale Effect on Thermal Vibration of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Nonlocal Boundary Condition
1Li Ming and 2Zheng Huiming
1Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Systems Science in Metallurgical Process, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, China
2Department of Mechanics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province 430074, China
Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology 2013 9:2729-2733
Received: September 19, 2012 | Accepted: November 01, 2012 | Published: March 20, 2013
Abstract
In this study, a single beam model has been developed to analyze the thermal vibration of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (SWCNT). The nonlocal elasticity takes into account the effect of small size into the formulation and the boundary condition. With exact solution of the dynamic governing equations, the thermal-vibrational characteristics of a cantilever SWCNT are obtained. Influence of nonlocal small scale effects, temperature change and vibration modes of the CNT on the frequency are investigated. The present study shows that the additional boundary conditions from small scale do not change natural frequencies at different temperature change. Thus for simplicity, one can apply the local boundary condition to replace the small scale boundary condition.
Keywords:
Euler-Bernoulli beams theory, exact solution, nonlocal elasticity, resonant frequency, thermal effect, vibrational mode,
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The authors have no competing interests.
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