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Atomistic Simulation of Boron Nitride Nanotubes Under Bending

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We investigate the bending buckling behavior of boron nitride (BN) nanotubes through molecular dynamics finite element method with Tersoff potential. Effects of the tube length on the critical bending buckling angle and moment are examined for (5, 5) BN armchair and (9, 0) BN zigzag tubes, which exhibit approximately identical diameters. The buckling and fracture mechanisms of the tubes under bending are considered and discussed with respect to various tube length–diameter ratios L/D = 10–40. Simulation results will help to design and use BN nanotube-based nanocomposites and nanodevices.

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Danh-Truong Nguyen’s work was funded by Vietnam National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED) under grant number 107.02-2016.13.

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  1. Department of Mechanics of Materials and Structures, School of Mechanical Engineering, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam

    T. Nguyen-Van, T. Nguyen-Danh & Q. Le-Minh

  2. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Thai Nguyen University of Technology, Thai Nguyen, Vietnam

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  1. CIR Technology, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

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  2. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Phuc Phung-Van

  3. Computational Mechanics, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Weimar, Germany

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Nguyen-Van, T., Nguyen-Danh, T., Le-Minh, Q. (2018). Atomistic Simulation of Boron Nitride Nanotubes Under Bending. In: Nguyen-Xuan, H., Phung-Van, P., Rabczuk, T. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computational Mechanics 2017. ACOME 2017. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7149-2_12

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