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Strength Asymmetry of Twinned Copper Nanowires under Tension and Compression

Yongfeng Zhang¹, Hanchen Huang^1,2, Satya N. Atluri³

1 Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,Troy, NY 12180.
2 Corresponding author. Email: hanchen@rpi.edu.
3 Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA92612.