..., the performance of their components needs to be carefully optimized, especially when they are scaled down to nanoscale sizes. Pioneering studies have demonstrated that surface elastic properties play a significant role in determining the mechanical performance of nanoscale materials and structures. Therefore...

...–Murdoch (G–M) surface elasticity theory, with which the surface effects on the stress and displacement distributions and the size of stick region (no-slip region) in the contact zone are systematically studied. It is found that the surface effect induces an additional traction besides the external force...

... to the large surface-to-volume ratio, the impact of surface energy on the physical response of nanostructures is nothing short of dramatic. How does the roughness of a surface renormalize the surface energy and associated quantities such as surface stress and surface elasticity? In this work, we attempt...

... to the Young–Laplace relation. Wang et al. ( 24 ) presented a rigorous 3D elasticity model to investigate the effects of surface elasticity and surface residual stress on the elastic properties of nanoscale structures. They considered the residual stress in the bulk due to surface stress and found that besides...

...C. I. Kim; P. Schiavone; C.-Q. Ru We examined the effects of surface elasticity in a classical mode-III crack problem arising in the antiplane shear deformations of a linearly elastic solid. The surface mechanics are incorporated using the continuum based surface/interface model of Gurtin...

...Gang-Feng Wang; Xi-Qiao Feng; Tie-Jun Wang; Wei Gao Based on the surface elasticity theory and using a local asymptotic approach, we analyzed the influences of surface energy on the stress distributions near a blunt crack tip. The dependence relationship of the crack-tip stresses on surface elastic...