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| Micro-Elastic
Behavior
· The clip shows a carbon Buckeytube with a closed end bouncing after dropping under its own weight onto a graphite surface. The lower diagram, from the same source, shows the force displacement curve associated with this behavior. |
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From: Dr. Nan Yao of the Princeton Materials Institute. |
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| · The tube shows a linear elastic response until the end-cap buckles, at which point the force required to continue the elastic deformation drops and becomes constant as the tube pushes into itself. The behavior is reversible and the Buckeytube completely recovers its original shape. | ||||||||||||||||||||