— A meshfree computational scheme is developed to study the compressive deformation of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). The continuum constitutive relationship is based on an extended Cauchy-Born rule, the higher order Cauchy-Born rule, in which the atomic-scale deformed lattice vectors are calculated with both the first and second order deformation gradients. The compression of CNTs is...

This paper deals with the calculation of the elastic properties for single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) under axial deformation and hydrostatic pressure using the atomistic-based continuum approach and the deformation mapping technique. A hyperelastic model based on the higher-order Cauchy-Born (HCB) rule being applicable at finite strains and accounting for the chirality and material nonli...

We study continuum and atomistic models for the elastodynamics of crystalline solids at zero temperature. We establish sharp criterion for the regime of validity of the nonlinear elastic wave equations derived from the well-known Cauchy-Born rule.