Effects of physical boundary conditions on the transverse vibration of single-layer graphene sheets

S Sadeghzadeh and MM Khatibi, APPLIED PHYSICS A-MATERIALS SCIENCE & PROCESSING, 122 (2016).

DOI: 10.1007/s00339-016-0337-8

The effects of various approaches for a comprehensive application of boundary conditions on the molecular dynamics of graphene nanosheets were studied in this paper. Fixing more than two rows of carbon atoms was tested for satisfaction of clamped boundary condition in dynamics problems, and it was demonstrated that a completely different view should be taken for clamped boundary conditions. To do this, through the frequency domain decomposition approach, operational modal analysis has been developed to carry out the Laboratory of Nanometric Operational Modal Analysis on a molecular dynamics platform. The theory of the mentioned approach was introduced, and some comparisons were made with experimental works. The modeling results have shown that for graphene sheets with simply supported edges, fixing two or more rows leads to the same response as fixing one row. For clamped edges, the use of a flexible base as a substrate satisfies the boundary condition with the best possible. At the end, as an example, it has been demonstrated that the second and third natural vibration frequencies increase with the increase in aspect ratio, while the first frequency remains unchanged.

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