..., and the increase of the surface energy of the substrate outside the contact zone is calculated based on the elastic foundation model. The total potential energy of the droplet-substrate system is given in terms of four geometrical parameters: the contact radius, the contact angle of the droplet, the deflection...

...Lei Zhang; C. Q. Ru Surface energy outside the contact zone, which is ignored in the classical Johnson–Kendall–Roberts (JKR) model, can play an essential role in adhesion mechanics of soft bodies. In this work, based on a simple elastic foundation model for a soft elastic half space with constant...

...C. Liu; R. K. N. D. Rajapakse; A. Srikantha Phani 21 04 2011 19 05 2011 14 11 2011 11 07 2011 14 11 2011 beams (structures) finite element analysis surface energy (1) Page 031014-9, in Table IV the solution corresponding to Wang et al. should be ( 8...

... closely with a recently reported rigorous solution. The maximum influence of surface energy effects is observed for cantilever beams. The finite element scheme provides an efficient tool to analyze, design, and predict the mechanical response of beam elements encountered in nanoelectromechanical systems...

...Q. F. Zhang; G. F. Wang; P. Schiavone When the radius of a hole reduces to nanometers, the influence of surface energy becomes prominent in its mechanical behavior. In the present paper, we consider the diffraction of plane compressional waves by an array of nanosized circular holes in an elastic...

... corresponding to such nanosized structural elements are significantly affected by the size. In order to employ surface and interface elasticity, several key properties such as surface energy, surface stresses, and surface elastic constants of several fcc materials as well as interface properties...

... for strain energy, (isotropic) surface energy, wetting layer potential energy, and geometric constraints, a rich behavior is obtained, whereby equilibrium configurations consist of a single island, multiple islands, or no islands, depending on the size of the growth area. It is shown that island formation...

... equations nanomechanics surface energy surface tension voids (solid) M -integral nano-inclusion Gurtin and Murdoch model surface tension surface Lamé constants The microelectomechanical system (MEMS) and advanced materials in the nanometer scale become increasingly popular owing...

... significant impacts on adhesion measurements, micro-electromechanical systems, and life-sciences. 01 07 2008 02 02 2009 18 06 2009 ab initio calculations adhesion delamination micromechanical devices surface energy thin films thin film adhesion delamination surface force...

...Gang-Feng Wang; Xi-Qiao Feng; Tie-Jun Wang; Wei Gao Based on the surface elasticity theory and using a local asymptotic approach, we analyzed the influences of surface energy on the stress distributions near a blunt crack tip. The dependence relationship of the crack-tip stresses on surface elastic...

... Metall. 0001-6160 10.1016/0001-6160(82)90043-8 , 30 ( 1 ) pp. 51 – 56 . Chandrasekhar , S. , 1965 , “The Stability of Proceedings of the Royal Society of London ,” Vol. A286 , p. 1 . Rosenkilde , C. E. , 1967a , “ Surface-Energy Tensors ,” J. Math. Phys. 0022-2488...

...J. H. Chang; J. S. Lin A fracture parameter M c is proposed for evaluation of the surface energy associated with the creation of multiple curved cracks in 2D rubbery solids under the action of large deformation. Based on the concept of the M -integral, the parameter is developed by performing...

...Eun-Suok Oh; Jay R. Walton; John C. Slattery A theory of fracture is presented that is based upon an extension of continuum mechanics to the nanoscale through the incorporation of long-range intermolecular forces which correct bulk material descriptions near interfaces. The surface energy on crack...

...-gradient elasticity with volumetric and surface energy (Casal’s continuum), extra terms appear in the constitutive equations which are associated with the interaction between the material gradation and the nonlocal effect of strain gradient. The corresponding governing partial differential equations...

...P. Sharma; S. Ganti surface energy inclusions tensors nanostructured materials Equations 21b , 21c and 22b , 22c in the published paper contain typographical errors. The error in Eqs. 21b , 21c involves a switching of the sign and a factor of 2 while the error in Eqs. 22b , 22c...

... functionality and high performance. This article investigates growth on a topographically patterned substrate as a means to control the arrangement of islands. By taking free energy to consist of elastic energy and surface energy, minimum energy configurations are calculated for islands on a raised substrate...

... 2004 09 11 2004 sloshing tanks (containers) fluid oscillations confined flow surface energy flow simulation numerical analysis zero gravity experiments For the case of Bo = 0 , on the other hand, the second term on the right-hand side of Eq. ( 71 ) vanishes...

... nanocomposites surface energy inclusions tensors stress effects voids (solid) elasticity elastic moduli Eshelby’s linear elastic solution of an embedded inclusion, 1 , has a distinguished place in the history of mechanics, materials science, and solid-state physics. Characterized by its...

... that these two cases provide bounds on G under mixed loading. Furthermore, crack stability is shown to involve a stochastic competition between potential and surface energies, whose weak randomness leads to a relatively stronger randomness of the critical crack length. On the physical side, the need...

.... , and Chan , Y.-S. , 1999 , “ Gradient Elasticity Theory for a Mode III Crack in a Functionally Graded Material ,” Mater. Sci. Forum , 308–311 , pp. 971 – 976 . Exadaktylos , G. , Vardoulakis , I. , and Aifantis , E. , 1996 , “ Cracks in Gradient Elastic Bodies With Surface Energy...