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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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Chapter and Conference Paper
Oriented Thermomechanics for Isothermal Planar Elastic Surfaces Under Small Deformation
In the present paper, the issue of the thermomechanical definitions of intrinsic surface elastic properties is addressed in the context of infinitesimal elasticity, utilizing two fundamental ideas of Gibbs sur...
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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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Chapter and Conference Paper
Elastic Sv-Wave Scattering by an Interface Crack Between a Piezoelectric Layer and an Elastic Substrate
The scattering of plane elastic waves by an interface crack between a piezoelectric layer and a homogeneous half-space is analyzed by means of the integral transform and the Cauchy singular integral equation m...
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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 ...