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The paper presents a numerical study of defect-free single-wall carbon, boron nitride and silicon carbide armchair and zigzag nanotubes, through a simple stick-and-spring model, based on Morse and cosine potential functions. The study investigates the relaxed configuration of the tubes and gives a comprehensive evaluation of their elastic constants, which is performed by framing tensile, torsional and radial tests within the membrane behaviour of a Donnell thin shell model. Extensive comparisons with reference ab-initio results are given and used to refine some parameters of the potential functions for hexagonal silicon carbide nanomaterials.
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Genoese, A., Genoese, A. & Salerno, G. On the nanoscale behaviour of single-wall C, BN and SiC nanotubes. Acta Mech 230, 1105–1128 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00707-018-2336-7
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