Abstract: A lot of research has shown that the strength of nanoparticle composites increases first and then decreases with the decrease of particle size when particle size is at nanoscale, which is the so-called positive-inverse ...

Abstract: With specimen size decrease for advanced structural materials, the measured mechanics behaviors display the strong size effects. In order to characterize the size effects, several higher-order theories have been presented ...

Abstract: The emerging skin-integrated devices have been embedded with various functions, whose ideal implementation typically relies on intact bonding to curved substrates. However, the predeformation, which originates from the ...

Abstract: We consider how the bending stiffness of a multilayer graphene sheet relies on its bending geometry, including the in-plane length L and the curvature κ. We use an interlayer shear model to characterize the periodic ...

Abstract: We study the bending stiffness of symmetrically bent circular multilayer van der Waals (vdW) material sheets, which correspond to the nonisometric configuration in bulge tests. Frenkel sinusoidal function is employed to ...