Nanoporous materials find a wide range of applications spanning diverse disciplines. For
sufficiently small nanopores, surface effects must be accounted for in calculating …

Interfaces that exist in composites greatly influence their mechanical and conductive
properties. There are usually three interface models to characterize the elastic and …

This paper is devoted to mesomechanical modeling of plastic deformation in a clayey rock.
The material contains linear-elastic mineral grains embedded in a porous clay matrix at …

This paper critically examines the predictive capabilities of three computational approaches
for the elastic-plastic response of nanoporous materials with energetic surfaces simulated …

In this paper, we investigate the interfacial stress effects on the macroscopic yield function of
ductile porous media containing nanosized spheroidal cavities. The solid matrix is assumed …

The increasing applications of nanoporous materials in engineering structures call for robust
strength criteria that are able to model the size effects of multiscale voids inherent to these …

The mechanical properties of nanowires are significantly affected by surface effects. In this
work, we investigate the potential mechanisms of surface residual stress and surface layer …

Surface elasticity effects based on the Gurtin-Murdoch model are incorporated for the first
time into a finite-volume based homogenization theory to enable analysis of materials with …

In this paper, strength properties of nanoporous materials are addressed aiming to establish
novel insights into the influence of void-size effects. To this end, a virtual spherically …

This paper studies the influence of surface energy (which includes the residual surface
stress and surface elasticity) on the postbuckling behavior of nanoplates. The governing …