Buckling analysis of single walled carbon nanotube on Winkler foundation using nonlocal elasticity theory and DTM

Abstract In the present work differential transformation method (DTM) is used to predict the buckling behaviour of single walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) on Winkler foundation under various boundary conditions. Four different boundary conditions namely clamped–clamped, simply supported, clamped hinged and clamped free are used to study the critical buckling loads. Effects of (i) size of SWCNT (ii) nonlocal parameter and (iii) Winkler elastic modulus on nonlocal critical buckling loads are being investigated and discussed. The DTM is implemented for the nonlocal SWCNT analyses and this yields results with high degree of accuracy. Further, present method can be applied to linear and nonlinear problems.

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