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Journal of Nanomaterials
Volume 2016 (2016), Article ID 8641954, 13 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/8641954
Research Article

An Atomistic-Based Continuum Modeling for Evaluation of Effective Elastic Properties of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

M. S. M. Al-Kharusi, K. Alzebdeh, and T. Pervez

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, Sultan Qaboos University, P.O. Box 33, 123 Al-Khod, Oman

Received 22 September 2015; Revised 31 January 2016; Accepted 18 February 2016

Academic Editor: Ilaria Armentano

Copyright © 2016 M. S. M. Al-Kharusi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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