It is widely appreciated that surface tension can dominate the behavior of liquids at small
scales. Solids also have surface stresses of a similar magnitude, but they are usually …

This review article summarizes the advances in the surface stress effect in mechanics of
nanostructured elements, including nanoparticles, nanowires, nanobeams, and nanofilms …

An important practical problem in application of open-cell porous biomaterials is the
prediction of the mechanical properties of the material given its micro-architecture and the …

From bone and wood to concrete and carbon fibre, composites are ubiquitous natural and
synthetic materials. Eshelby's inclusion theory describes how macroscopic stress fields …

Silver nanowires with different diameters were synthesized by a hydrothermal chemical
method. The elastic properties of the nanowires with outer diameters ranging from 20 to 140 …

In nanoscaled solids, the mathematical behavior of a curved interface between two different
phases with interface stress effects can be described by the generalized Young-Laplace …

We have shown in a series of recent papers that the classical theory of elasticity can be
extended to the nanoscale by supplementing the equations of elasticity for the bulk material …

Interphase regions that form in heterogeneous materials through various underlying
mechanisms such as poor mechanical or chemical adherence, roughness, and coating, play …

Experimental and theoretical results of late have pointed to elastomers filled with various
types of liquid inclusions as a promising new class of materials with unprecedented …

Strain-gradient elasticity is widely used as a suitable alternative to size-independent
classical continuum elasticity to, at least partially, capture elastic size effects at the …