Table 3 Critical strains of single-walled CNTs as obtained by various researchers using atomistic simulations under different simulation conditions.

Yakobson et al.⁹

Tersoff–Brenner (TB)

Conjugate gradient

(7, 7)

Cornwell et al.⁹⁸

TB

0.005 K by velocity scaling

(8, 8)

(16, 16)

(19, 19)

(24,24)

Wang et al.⁹⁹

REBO

0.01 K by Nose–Hoover thermostat

(8, 8)

(11, 11)

(17, 17)

(23, 23)

Ni et al.⁵⁷

REBO

100 K by Langevin thermostat

(10, 10)

Zhang et al.¹⁰

REBO

300 K by Nose–Hoover thermostat

(12, 12)

Buehler et al.⁵¹

TB

 × 

(20, 20)

Liew et al.¹⁰⁰

REBO

Conjugate gradient

(10, 10)

Shen et al.¹⁰¹

REBO

300 K by Nose–Hoover thermostat

(8, 8)

Zhou et al.¹⁰²

TB

100 K by Berendsen thermostat

(10, 10)

(14, 14)

(18, 18)

Leung et al.¹⁰³

REBO

Atomic scale finite element method

(7, 7)

Zhang et al.¹⁰⁴

REBO

300 K by velocity scaling

(5, 5)

(7, 7)

(7, 7)

(8, 8)

(10, 10)

(12, 12)

(14, 14)

(16, 16)

(18, 18)

(20, 20)

Xin et al.¹⁰⁵

Morse, harmonic and periodic

Strain rates \(\dot{\upvarepsilon }=2.5\times {10}^{-3}\frac{nm}{ps}\)

(7, 7)

Zhang et al.¹⁰⁶

REBO

Strain rates \(\dot{\upvarepsilon }=8.3\times {10}^{-4}\frac{nm}{ps}\)

(10, 10)

Strain rates \(\dot{\upvarepsilon }=8.3\times {10}^{-5}\frac{nm}{ps}\)

(10, 10)

Present authors

MM

(3, 3)

(4, 4)

(5, 5)

(6, 6)

(7, 7)

(8, 8)

(9, 9)

(10, 10)

(11, 11)

(12, 12)

(13, 13)

(14, 14)

(15, 15)

(16, 16)

(17, 17)

(18, 18)

(19, 19)

(20, 20)

(21, 21)

(22, 22)

(23, 23)

(24, 24)

(25, 25)