http://imechanica.org/taxonomy/term/619 Comments for "thin-walled structures" en http://imechanica.org/node/844#comment-1175 <p>In the discussion section of the paper, the persistence length of a carbon nanotube was estimated wrongly.</p> <p>For a carbon nanotube, the Young&#39;s modulus <em>E</em> defined in this paper is not a constant. The material constant is <em>E</em>*<em>R</em>*<em>t</em>. Therefore, for carbon nanotube, the persistence length <em>l</em>p does not scale to 4.4*<em>R</em>^(3/2)/<em>t</em>^(1/2)! </p> <p>However this equation, which does not apply to the case of carbon nanotube, was used for the estimation of the persistent length of a carbon nanotube (<em>R</em>~2, <em>t</em>~0.2nm). Therefore the conclusion that the persistence is <em>l</em>p~30nm is wrong.</p> <br class="clear" /> Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:22:06 -0500 Henry Tan comment 1175 at http://imechanica.org http://imechanica.org/node/844#comment-1156 <p>Thank you very much for your interest. I have now uploaded the pdf file of the paper.</p> <br class="clear" /> Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:59:45 -0500 Ashkan Vaziri comment 1156 at http://imechanica.org http://imechanica.org/node/844#comment-1154 <p>The link does not work.</p> <br class="clear" /> Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:50:40 -0500 Haimin Yao comment 1154 at http://imechanica.org