Carbon nanotubes have great potential applications in making ballistic-resistance materials. This letter analyzes the impact of a bullet on nanotubes of different radii in two extreme cases. For a nanotube with one end fixed, the maximum nanotube enduring bullet speed increases and the energy absorption efficiency decreases with the increase in relative heights at which the bullet strikes; these values are independent of the nanotube radii when the bullet hits at a particular relative height. For a nanotube with both ends fixed, the energy absorption efficiency reaches minimum when the bullet strikes around a relative height of 0.5. © 2006 American Institute of Physics.
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Mylvaganam, K., & Zhang, L. C. (2006). Energy absorption capacity of carbon nanotubes under ballistic impact. Applied Physics Letters, 89(12). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2356325
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