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Shou-Wen Yu
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Open AccessHierarchical chirality transfer in the growth of Towel Gourd tendrils
Chirality plays a significant role in the physical properties and biological functions of many biological materials, e.g., climbing tendrils and twisted leaves, which exhibit chiral growth. However, the mechan...
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Design methods of rhombic tensegrity structures
As a special type of novel flexible structures, tensegrity holds promise for many potential applications in such fields as materials science, biomechanics, civil and aerospace engineering. Rhombic systems are ...
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Open AccessControllable nanostructural transitions in grafted nanoparticle-block copolymer composites
We report a theoretical investigation of self-assembled nanostructures of polymer-grafted nanoparticles in a block copolymer and explore underlying physical mechanisms by employing the self-consistent field me...
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Fracture mechanics analysis on Smart-Cut® technology. Part 2: Effect of bonding flaws
In Part 2 of the paper on the Smart-Cut process, the effects of bonding flaws characterized by the size and internal pressure before and after splitting are studied by using fracture mechanics models. It is fo...
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Fracture mechanics analysis on Smart-Cut® technology. Part 1: Effects of stiffening wafer and defect interaction
In the present paper, continuum fracture mechanics is used to analyze the Smart-Cut process, a recently established ion cut technology which enables highly efficient fabrication of various silicon-on-insulator...
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Morphology of Liquid Drops and thin Films on a Solid Surface with Sinusoidal Microstructures
Surface microstructures of solid materials play a significant role in various wetting and dewetting phenomena. In the present paper, the effect of micro- and nano-structures of a substrate surface on the morph...
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A triggering criterion of dislocation sources under Mode-I singular stresses
A triggering criterion is suggested to determine the instability of a dislocation source under Mode-I singular stresses. Two kinds of configurations are considered, including a crack and a wedge formed by clim...
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Effective Elastic and Plastic Properties of Interpenetrating Multiphase Composites
In interpenetrating phase composites, there are at least two phases that are each interconnected in three dimensions, constructing a topologically continuous network throughout the microstructure. The dependen...
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Elastic Wave Scattering by an Interface Crack Between a Piezoelectric Layer and an Elastic Substrate
The scattering problem of a plane elastic wave by an interface crack between a piezoelectric layer and an elastic substrate is analyzed by means of the integral transform and the Cauchy singular integral equat...
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Effective moduli for thermopiezoelectric materials with microcracks
Dilute, Self-Consistent (SC), Mori-Tanaka (MT) and differential micromechanics methods are developed for microcrack- weakened thermopiezoelectric solids. These methods are capable of determination of effective...
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Griffith crack moving along the interface of two dissimilar piezoelectric materials
The problem of an anti-plane Griffith crack moving along the interface of dissimilar piezoelectric materials is solved by using the integral transform technique. It is shown from the result that the intensity ...
