Young's modulus determines the mechanical loads required to elastically stretch a material, and also, bend it, given that bending stretches one surface while compressing opposite one. Flexoelectric materials have additional property of becoming electrically polarized when bent. While numerous studies characterized this flexoelectric coupling, its impact on response, due energy cost polarization...

In this paper, the bond-based peridynamic system is analyzed as a nonlocal boundary value problem with volume constraint. The study extends earlier works in the literature on nonlocal diffusion and nonlocal peridynamic models to include non-positive definite kernels. We prove the well-posedness of both linear and nonlinear variational problems with volume constraints. The analysis is based on s...

Abstract In this paper, we consider the time decay of solutions to some problems arising in strain gradient thermoelasticity. We restrict two-dimensional case, and assume that two dissipative mechanisms are introduced, temperature mass dissipation. First, show problem is well-posed proving operator defining it generates a contractive semigroup linear operators. Then, assuming function involving...

Within the framework of strain gradient elasticity under finite deformations we formulate strong ellipticity conditions equilibrium equations. model a energy density is function first and second deformation gradients. Ellipticity involves certain constraints on tangent elastic moduli. It also closely related to infinitesimal stability which defined as positive definiteness variation potential f...

This article focuses on studying the nonlinear vibration of functionally graded (FG) curved nanobeams resting Pasternak-Winkler elastic foundation based nonlocal strain gradient theory along with first-order shear deformation beam (FSDBT) considering von-Kármán hypothesis. The Hamilton principle is applied to extract three motion equations and Galerkin method (GM) utilized spatially reduce diff...

Abstract.The paper focuses on the modelling of the quasi-brittle failure of materials with a heterogeneous microstructure. Failure induced anisotropy is incorporated in terms of the microplane theory. This theory is based on scalar damage laws formulated on several individual material planes. Anisotropy of the overall constitutive law is introduced in a natural fashion by transforming the scala...

Semi-analytical solutions for vibration analysis of nonlocal piezoelectric Kirchhoff plates resting on viscoelastic foundation with arbitrary boundary conditions are derived by developing Galerkin strip distributed transfer function method. Based on the nonlocal elasticity theory for piezoelectric materials and Hamilton's principle, the governing equations of motion and boundary conditions are ...

A size-dependent strain gradient Mori-Tanaka model (SGMT) is developed by applying strain gradient elasticity to the classical Mori-Tanka (M-T) method. The SGMT model is shown to be able to accurately predict the experimentally observed increase in stiffness of a layerby-layer (LBL)-assembled polyurethane-montmorillonite (PU-MTM) nanocomposite with various volume fractions. 3D Finite Element (F...

Based on the theories of thermal elasticity mechanics and nonlocal elasticity, an elastic Bernoulli–Euler beam model is developed for thermal-mechanical vibration and buckling instability of a single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) conveying fluid and resting on an elastic medium. The finite element method is adopted to obtain the numerical solutions to the model. The effects of temperature chan...