Recently, the mechanical behavior of micro-/nano-structures has sparked an ongoing
debate, which leads to a fundamental question: what steps can be taken to investigate the …

In recent years, mechanical characteristics including vibration, bending, buckling and
postbuckling, stability and instability, etc. of small-scaled structures (such as …

This paper presents a comprehensive review on the development of higher-order continuum
models for capturing size effects in small-scale structures. The review mainly focus on the …

Effective stiffness properties (D) of nanosized structural elements such as plates and beams
differ from those predicted by standard continuum mechanics (D c). These differences (DD …

This letter presents a theoretical treatment of Timoshenko [S. Timoshenko, Philos. Mag. 41,
744 (1921)] beams, in which the influences of shear deformation, rotary inertia, and scale …

Insight into the mechanical characteristics of nanoscopic structures is of fundamental interest
and indeed poses a great challenge to the research communities around the world. These …

Understanding the mechanical behaviour of nanostructures is of great importance due to
their applications in nanodevices such as in nanomechanical resonators, nanoscale mass …

Nanoscale beams are commonly found in nanomechanical and nanoelectromechanical
systems (NEMS) and other nanotechnology-based devices. Surface energy has a significant …

This paper initiates the theoretical analysis of nonlinear microbeams and investigates the
static bending, postbuckling and free vibration. The nonlinear model is conducted within the …

A microscale vibration analysis of micro-plates is developed based on a modified couple
stress theory. The presence of the length scale parameter in this theory enables us to …