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Effects of Microplastic Size on Oil Dispersion in Oceans
Oil spills are a major concern in oceans. Chemical dispersants are widely used as effective oil spill treating agents in the marine environment,...
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Size effects of voids on the mechanical properties of 3D printed parts
Although the effects of additive manufacturing process parameters on the mechanical properties of 3D printed parts have been numerically investigated...
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On the Question of the Sign of Size Effects in the Elastic Behavior of Foams
Due to their good ratio of stiffness and strength to weight, foam materials find use in lightweight engineering. Though, in many applications like...
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Size and passivation effects in the torsion of thin metallic wires
Torsion tests are performed on microscale copper wires of diameters ranging from 25 to 50 μm, with and without passivation layers, to investigate the...
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Particle size effects on the axial pull-out and push-in behaviour of roots
For smaller plant roots in coarse-grained soils, large relative size of soil particles compared to roots can affect their axial resistance. Even for...
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Constitutive modeling of porosity and grain size effects on superelasticity of porous nanocrystalline NiTi shape memory alloy
Porous nanocrystalline NiTi shape memory alloy (SMA) benefit from a combination of the smart responses of nanograined SMA and the characteristics of...
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Sample Size and Color Effects on the Performance of a Mobile Solar Dehydrator
The ever-growing food demand in the recent years due to population growth and climate change has forced the population to experience food shortages....
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Reduced relaxed micromorphic modeling of harmonically loaded metamaterial plates: investigating boundary effects in finite-size structures
In this paper, we propose an approach for describing wave propagation in finite-size microstructured metamaterials using a reduced relaxed...
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Effects of grain size distributions on scattering attenuation of elastic waves in polycrystalline materials
The propagation characteristics of elastic waves in polycrystalline materials depend not only on grain size, but also on grain size distribution. In...
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Experimental and numerical study of frictional size effects in micro-metal forming
Due to the size effect phenomenon, the conventional friction models commonly used in metal forming are not accurate for use in micro-metal forming....
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Size and Interface Effects on Tensile Strength of Polymers with Nano/Micro Particle Inclusions
Polymers with particle inclusions have wide applications, and the mechanical properties of polymer composites affect their reliability in service....
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Modeling the indentation size effects of polymers, based on couple stress elasticity and shear transformation plasticity
This work attempts to construct models which can describe the size effects in modulus and hardness of polymers measured by indentation tests....
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Size Optimization
This chapter is focused on exploring the size optimization of planar and space trusses. In this study, we investigate several types of trusses,...
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Size effects of the nonlinear resonance analysis of a microbeam under time delay feedback control
The nonlinear dynamics of an electrostatically actuated micro-electro-mechanical system capacitor with von-Kármán geometric nonlinearity are...
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Size-dependent and microinertia effects on statics and dynamics based on the modified couple stress theory with arbitrary boundary conditions
In this work, we discuss size-dependent and microinertia effects on the static and dynamic performances of a microscale model based on the...
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Size effects on the strength and cracking behavior of flawed rocks under uniaxial compression: from laboratory scale to field scale
The failure behavior of field-scale rock masses has long been studied indirectly through laboratory compression tests on rock specimens with...
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Fire induced concrete spalling in combination with size effects
The size effect has its origin in fracture mechanics and describes the formation as well as propagation of cracks in brittle and solid materials in...
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Some effects of domain size and boundary conditions on the accuracy of airfoil simulations
This paper investigates a specific case of one of the most popular fluid dynamic simulations, the incompressible flow around an airfoil (NACA 0012...
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Size effects on deformation behavior of ultra-thin-walled corrugated sheets in roll bend forming process
The corrugated sheet is a crucial component of the metal honeycomb structure. This study investigates the size effects on the deformation behavior of...
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Size Effects on Mechanical Properties of Single Layer Molybdenum Disulfide Nanoribbon
This work investigates size effects on mechanical properties of single layer molybdenum disulfide (SLMoS2) nanoribbon under uniaxial tension using...