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JOURNAL OF NANOMATERIALS
Volume 2011, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
HINDAWI LTD
DOI: 10.1155/2011/380286
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- University of Wyoming
- NSF [CMMI-0856250]
- Government of Tibet in Exile
- University of Wyoming Graduate School
- Directorate For Engineering [0856250] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The pressure bulge test is an experimental technique to characterize the mechanical properties of microscale thin films. Here, we perform constant-temperature molecular dynamics simulations of the plane-strain cylindrical bulge test of nanosized monolayer graphene subjected to high gas pressure induced by hydrogen molecules. We observe a nonlinear elastic softening of the graphene with an increase in hydrogen pressure due to the stretching and weakening of the carbon-carbon bonds; we further observe that this softening behavior depends upon the size of the graphene monolayers. Our simulation results suggest that the traditional microscale bulge formulas, which assume constant elastic moduli, should be modified to incorporate the size dependence and elastic softening that occur in nanosized graphene bulge tests.
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