Nonlocal Mechanical Behavior of Layered Nanobeams

Abstract

The research at hand deals with the mechanical behavior of beam-like nanostructures. Nanobeams are assembled of multiple layers of different materials and geometry giving a layered nanobeam. To properly address experimentally noticed size effects in structures of this type, an adequate nonlocal elasticity formulation must be applied. The present model relies on the stress-driven integral methodology that effectively circumvents known deficiencies of other approaches. As a main contribution, a set of differential equations and boundary conditions governing the underlaying mechanics is proposed and applied to two benchmark examples. The obtained results show the expected stiffening nonlocal behavior exhibiting most of smaller and smaller structures and modern devices.