Review on nonlocal continuum mechanics: physics, material applicability, and mathematics

M Shaat, E Ghavanloo, SA Fazelzadeh - Mechanics of Materials, 2020 - Elsevier
The classical continuum mechanics assumes that a material is a composition of an infinite
number of particles each of which is a point that can only move and interact with its nearest …

A review on vibrating beam-based micro/nano-gyroscopes

K Larkin, M Ghommem, M Serrano… - Microsystem Technologies, 2021 - Springer
A comprehensive review of the modeling approaches used to simulate the behaviors of
micro/nano-gyroscopes is presented. The performance and sensitivity of these inertial …

Investigations on the performance of piezoelectric-flexoelectric energy harvesters

EF Rojas, S Faroughi, A Abdelkefi, YH Park - Applied Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Flexoelectric electromechanical systems have received recent attention for their ability to
harvest energy at the nanoscale where piezoelectric systems could not generate …

Modeling and vibration characteristics of cracked nano-beams made of nanocrystalline materials

M Shaat, MA Khorshidi, A Abdelkefi… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
A size-dependent Euler–Bernoulli beam model is developed to investigate the vibration
characteristics of cracked nano-beams made of nanocrystalline materials. The proposed …

Pre-buckling responses of Timoshenko nanobeams based on the integral and differential models of nonlocal elasticity: an isogeometric approach

A Norouzzadeh, R Ansari, H Rouhi - Applied Physics A, 2017 - Springer
Differential form of Eringen's nonlocal elasticity theory is widely employed to capture the
small-scale effects on the behavior of nanostructures. However, paradoxical results are …

Size-dependent pull-in analysis of a composite laminated micro-beam actuated by electrostatic and piezoelectric forces: Generalized differential quadrature method

J Shen, H Wang, S Zheng - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, a size-dependent model of clamped-clamped composite laminated
electrostatic Euler–Bernoulli microbeams with piezoelectric layers attached was proposed …

Simulation of an electrically actuated cantilever as a novel biosensor

M SoltanRezaee, M Bodaghi - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Recently, detecting biological particles by analyzing their mechanical properties has
attracted increasing attention. To detect and identify different bioparticles and estimate their …

Frequency and mode veering phenomena of axially functionally graded non-uniform beams with nonlocal residuals

M Sari, M Shaat, A Abdelkefi - Composite Structures, 2017 - Elsevier
A Timoshenko beam model for axially functionally graded (FG) non-uniform nanobeams with
nonlocal residuals is developed. Eringen's nonlocal theory of linear elasticity is used to …

Variational formulations and isogeometric analysis for the dynamics of anisotropic gradient-elastic Euler-Bernoulli and shear-deformable beams

ST Yaghoubi, V Balobanov, SM Mousavi… - European Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
A strain and velocity gradient framework is formulated for centrosymmetric anisotropic Euler-
Bernoulli and third-order shear-deformable (TSD) beam models, reducible to Timoshenko …

Nonlinear analysis of rotating nanocrystalline silicon microbeams for microgyroscope applications

M Ghommem, A Abdelkefi - Microsystem Technologies, 2017 - Springer
In this paper, we examine the nonlinear dynamical responses of a microgyroscope
consisting of a rotating microbeam made of nanocrystalline material with attached proof …