“…Recently, the nonlocal continuum theory, which assumes that the stress tensor at any point is dependent on the whole strain field of the continuum, is widely used to characterize the small-scale effects of CNTs. This theory was firstly proposed by Eringen (1972) and was successfully used in solving the vibration (De Rosa and Lippiello 2017;Deng and Yang 2014;Ebrahimi and Nasirzadeh 2015;Hu et al 2012;Kiani 2013a, b;Xia and Wang 2010;Zhen et al 2011), wave propagation (Aydogdu 2014;Huang et al 2013;Narendar and Gopalakrishnan 2010;Narendar et al 2012;Wang et al 2006Wang et al , 2013Wang et al , 2015, and buckling (Adali 2008;Amara et al 2010;Khademolhosseini et al 2010;Robinson and Adali 2016;Setoodeh et al 2011) problems of CNTs. Several different nonlocal continuum theories, such as the nonlocal Euler-Bernoulli beam (Setoodeh et al 2011;Wang et al 2015;Zhen et al 2011), nonlocal Timoshenko beam (De Rosa and Lippiello 2017;Narendar and Gopalakrishnan 2010;Xia and Wang 2010), and nonlocal shell (Khademolhosseini et al 2010) theory, were adopted to study the mechanical behaviors of CNTs, in particular, because the CNT comprises a sheet of carbon atoms, which makes it perfect a candidate for nanocontainers to store gases and for nanotubes to convey fluids (Ansari et al 2016;Bahaadini and Hosseini 2016;SafarPour and Ghadiri 2017).…”