We use molecular mechanics simulations with the MM3 potential to study instabilities in clampedclamped single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) deformed in torsion and axial compression. The following are the two criteria employed to find the critical buckling strain: (i) a sudden drop in the potential energy and (ii) an eigenvalue of the mass weighted Hessian of the deformed configuration becom...

In practice, the elastic lateral-torsional buckling of doubly symmetric I-section steel members is analyzed assuming free warping at supports. However, welded stiffeners, bolted end-plate connections or column base plates maintain elastically opposite flange out-of-plane rotations and thus induce substantial restraints. This paper proposes analytical formulations for evaluation critical bending...