Tribology and MEMS

JA Williams, HR Le - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
Micro-electro-mechanical system, MEMS, is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary technology
dealing with the design and manufacture of miniaturized machines with the major …

Fracture strength of micro-and nano-scale silicon components

FW DelRio, RF Cook, BL Boyce - Applied Physics Reviews, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Silicon devices are ubiquitous in many micro-and nano-scale technological applications,
most notably microelectronics and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). Despite their …

Static and dynamic analysis of micro beams based on strain gradient elasticity theory

S Kong, S Zhou, Z Nie, K Wang - International Journal of Engineering …, 2009 - Elsevier
The static and dynamic problems of Bernoulli–Euler beams are solved analytically on the
basis of strain gradient elasticity theory due to Lam et al. The governing equations of …

A micro scale Timoshenko beam model based on strain gradient elasticity theory

B Wang, J Zhao, S Zhou - European Journal of Mechanics-A/Solids, 2010 - Elsevier
A micro scale Timoshenko beam model is developed based on strain gradient elasticity
theory. Governing equations, initial conditions and boundary conditions are derived …

Crystalline polymer nanofibers with ultra-high strength and thermal conductivity

R Shrestha, P Li, B Chatterjee, T Zheng, X Wu… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Polymers are widely used in daily life, but exhibit low strength and low thermal conductivity
as compared to most structural materials. In this work, we develop crystalline polymer …

Size-dependent vibration characteristics of fluid-conveying microtubes

L Wang - Journal of Fluids and Structures, 2010 - Elsevier
In this paper, a new theoretical model is developed, based on the modified couple stress
theory, for the vibration analysis of fluid-conveying microtubes by introducing one internal …

Vibration and instability analysis of tubular nano-and micro-beams conveying fluid using nonlocal elastic theory

L Wang - Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and …, 2009 - Elsevier
A nonlocal Euler–Bernoulli elastic beam model is developed for the vibration and instability
of tubular micro-and nano-beams conveying fluid using the theory of nonlocal elasticity …

Nonlinear dynamic analysis of FG micro-pipes conveying fluid based on strain gradient theory

AR Setoodeh, S Afrahim - Composite Structures, 2014 - Elsevier
In this article, an analytical solution is presented for the size dependent nonlinear vibration
behavior of micro-pipes conveying fluid made of functionally graded materials (FGMs). On …

Nonlinear modeling and size-dependent vibration analysis of curved microtubes conveying fluid based on modified couple stress theory

M Tang, Q Ni, L Wang, Y Luo, Y Wang - International Journal of Engineering …, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper, a nonlinear theoretical model for three-dimensional vibration analysis of
curved microtubes conveying fluid with clamped–clamped ends is developed and analyzed …

Toward the ultimate tribological interface: surface chemistry and nanotribology of ultrananocrystalline diamond

AV Sumant, DS Grierson, JE Gerbi, J Birrell… - Advanced …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Innovations in materials synthesis and design are leading to the rapid development of micro-
and nanosystems, in which structure and function are controlled down to the atomic scale.[1] …