The quest for realizing and manipulating ever smaller man-made movable structures and
dynamical machines has spurred tremendous endeavors, led to important discoveries, and …

Nanomechanics has brought mesoscopic physics into the world of vibrations. Because
nanomechanical systems are small, fluctuations are significant, the vibrations already …

As an intriguing phenomenon in coupled dynamic systems, mode localization has garnered
considerable attention in areas such as vibration control, sensing, etc. This paper …

Micro and nanoelectromechanical systems M/NEMS have been extensively investigated
and exploited in the past few decades for various applications and for probing fundamental …

Quality factor (Q) is an important property of micro-and nano-electromechanical (MEM/NEM)
resonators that underlie timing references, frequency sources, atomic force microscopes …

Micro-and nanoelectromechanical systems have numerous applications in sensing and
signal transduction. Many properties benefit from reducing the system size to the nanoscale …

Even if still little known, the most significant nonlinear effect during nonlinear vibrations of
continuous systems is the increase of dam** with the vibration amplitude. The literature on …

The dynamics of suspended two-dimensional (2D) materials has received increasing
attention during the last decade, yielding new techniques to study and interpret the physics …

Mechanical sources of nonlinear dam** play a central role in modern physics, from solid-
state physics to thermodynamics. The microscopic theory of mechanical dissipation …

Experiments show a strong increase in dam** with the vibration amplitude during
nonlinear vibrations of beams, plates and shells. This is observed for large size structures …