The stiffness of living tissues and its implications for tissue engineering

CF Guimarães, L Gasperini, AP Marques… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
The past 20 years have witnessed ever-growing evidence that the mechanical properties of
biological tissues, from nanoscale to macroscale dimensions, are fundamental for cellular …

Pulsed laser 3D-micro/nanostructuring of materials for electrochemical energy storage and conversion

Z Li, X Wei, Z Yang - Progress in Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Electrochemical energy storage and conversion play an important role in the sustainable
development of an environmentally friendly society, but the performances of electrochemical …

Variational nonlocal gradient elasticity for nano-beams

R Barretta, FM de Sciarra - International Journal of Engineering Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract In the paper (Zaera, Serrano, & Fernández-Sáez, 2019) it is claimed that the
nonlocal strain gradient theory (NSGT) leads to ill-posed structural problems. This …

[HTML][HTML] A stress-driven local-nonlocal mixture model for Timoshenko nano-beams

R Barretta, A Caporale, SA Faghidian… - Composites Part B …, 2019 - Elsevier
A well-posed stress-driven mixture is proposed for Timoshenko nano-beams. The model is a
convex combination of local and nonlocal phases and circumvents some problems of ill …

On geometrically nonlinear mechanics of nanocomposite beams

MS Vaccaro - International Journal of Engineering Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Nowadays, nanocomposite beams undergoing large displacements are effectively
employed as basic structural components of small-scale electro-mechanical systems, such …

Size-dependent instability of organic solar cell resting on Winkler–Pasternak elastic foundation based on the modified strain gradient theory

Q Li, D Wu, W Gao, F Tin-Loi - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
The present study employs the modified strain gradient theory (MSGT) in conjunction with
the refined shear deformation plate theory to explore the buckling behaviour of simply …

On nonlocal mechanics of curved elastic beams

R Barretta, FM de Sciarra, MS Vaccaro - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Curved beams are basic structural components of Nano-Electro-Mechanical-Systems
(NEMS) whose design requires appropriate modelling of scale effects. In the present paper …

The influence of a non-local Moore–Gibson–Thompson heat transfer model on an underlying thermoelastic material under the model of memory-dependent …

AE Abouelregal, M Marin, A Öchsner - Continuum Mechanics and …, 2023 - Springer
In this article, a modified Moore–Gibson–Thompson heat transfer equation with a memory-
dependent derivative is utilized to investigate the thermoelastic interaction induced by non …

Integral and differential approaches to Eringen's nonlocal elasticity models accounting for boundary effects with applications to beams in bending

AA Pisano, P Fuschi, C Polizzotto - ZAMM‐Journal of Applied …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The Eringen's fully nonlocal elasticity model is known to lead to ill‐posed boundary‐value
problems and to suffer some boundary effects arising from particle interactions impeded by …

Size effects of small-scale beams in bending addressed with a strain-difference based nonlocal elasticity theory

P Fuschi, AA Pisano, C Polizzotto - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2019 - Elsevier
A strain-difference based nonlocal elasticity model devised by the authors elsewhere
(Polizzotto et al., Int. J. Solids Struct. 25 (2006) 308–333) is applied to small-scale …