Micro-and nanoscale materials have remarkable mechanical properties, such as enhanced
strength and toughness, but they usually display sample-to-sample fluctuations and size …

This paper presents a new concept flexure hinge for MEMS applications and reveals how to
design, construct, and experimentally test. This hinge combines a curved beam, as a flexible …

The nuclear-grade (low-impurity) graphite needed for the fuel element and moderator
material for next-generation (Gen IV) reactors displays large scatter in strength and a …

Micro-and nano-patterns are gaining increasing attraction in several fields ranging from
nanoelectronics to bioengineering. The mechanical properties of the nanostructures …

The high g shock resistance and sensitivity are two dominant factors to impact the
airdropped sonobuoy reliability. In order to improve the high g shock resistance and …

A high-throughput sequential tensile test method has been developed to characterize the
fracture strength distribution of microfabricated polycrystalline silicon, the primary structural …

The buckling behaviour of filament-wound carbon fibre–epoxy composite pressure vessel
with aluminium liner for subsea blowout preventer is investigated by using probabilistic finite …

We describe and validate a new failure prediction methodology specifically designed for
single-crystal microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) devices under general service …

Small-scale mechanical testing of materials has gained prominence in the last decade or so
due to the continuous miniaturization of components and devices in everyday application …

It has recently been shown that a three‐parameter Weibull function with a large threshold
strength of≈ 2 GPa is needed to accurately describe the failure strength statistics of …