Free Vibration Analysis of Microtubules as Orthotropic Elastic Shells Using Stress and Strain Gradient Elasticity Theory

Subject Areas : Engineering

F  Mokhtari ¹ (Faculty of Engineering, Shahrekord University)
Y  Tadi Beni ² (Nanotechnology Research Center, Shahrekord University)

Received: 2016-05-30 Accepted : 2016-07-07 Published : 2016-09-20

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