TY - BOOK AU - Tserpes,Konstantinos I. AU - Silvestre,Nuno TI - Modeling of carbon nanotubes, graphene and their composites T2 - Springer series in materials science SN - 9783319012001 U1 - 620.115 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Switzerland : PB - Springer, KW - Nanostructured materials. KW - Carbon nanotubes. KW - Nanotubes. N1 - Improved mechanical performance of CNTs and CNT fibres in nanocomposites through inter-wall and inter-tube coupling / Michael A. McCarthy, Emmett M. Byrne, Nathan P. O'Brien and Tony Murmu -- A review on the application of nonlocal elastic models in modeling of carbon nanotubes and graphenes / Behrouz Arash and Quan Wang -- A heterogeneous discrete approach of interfacial effects on multi-scale modelling of carbon nanotube and graphene based composites / S.K. Georgantzinos, G.I. Giannopoulos, K.N. Spanos and N.K. Anifantis -- Effect of covalent functionalization on Young's modulus of a single-wall carbon nanotube / Priyal H. Shah and Romesh C. Batra -- Multiscale modeling of multifunctional fuzzy fibers based on multi-walled carbon nanotubes / Gary Don Seidel, George Chatzigeorgiou, Xiang Ren and Dimitris C. Lagoudas -- Geometry-property relation in corrugated nanocarbon cylinders / Hiroyuki Shima -- Prediction of mechanical properties of CNT based composites using multi-scale modeling and stochastic analysis / Roham Rafiee and Mahmood M. Shokrieh -- Molecular dynamics simulation and continuum shell model for buckling analysis of carbon nanotubes / C.M. Wang, A.N. Roy Chowdhury, S.J.A. Koh and Y.Y. Zhang -- Influence of bond kinematics on the rupture of non-chiral CNTs under stretching-twisting / Bruno Faria, Nuno Silvestre and José N. Canongia Lopes -- Finite element modeling of the tensile behavior of carbon nanotubes, graphene and their composites / Konstantinos I. Tserpes and Paraskevas Papanikos-- About the editors N2 - This book contains ten chapters, authored by world experts in the field of simulation at nano-scale and aims to demonstrate the potentialities of computational techniques to model the mechanical behavior of nano-materials, such as carbon nanotubes, graphene and their composites. A large part of the research currently being conducted in the fields of materials science and engineering mechanics is devoted to carbon nanotubes, graphene and their applications. In this process, computational modeling is a very attractive research tool due to the difficulties in manufacturing and testing of nano-materials. Both atomistic modeling methods, such as molecular mechanics and molecular dynamics, and continuum modeling methods are being intensively used. Continuum modeling offers significant advantages over atomistic modeling such as the reduced computational effort, the capability of modeling complex structures and bridging different analysis scales, thus enabling modeling from the nano- to the macro-scale. On the other hand, atomistic modeling is very accurate and can provide detailed information about the effects of material structure such as the interfaces and functionalization ER -