The importance of thermoelastic damping as a fundamental dissipation mechanism for small-scale mechanical resonators is evaluated in light of recent efforts to design high-Q micrometer- and nanometer-scale electromechanical systems. The equations of linear thermoelasticity are used to give a simple derivation for thermoelastic damping of small flexural vibrations in thin beams. It is shown that Zener’s well-known approximation by a Lorentzian with a single thermal relaxation time slightly deviates from the exact expression.

Thermoelastic Damping in Micro- and Nano-Mechanical Systems.

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Thermal Stresses Advanced Theory And Applications

At present, with the development in nanotechnology, nanostructures with temperature-dependent properties have been used in nano-electromechanical systems (NEMS). Thus, introducing an accurate mathematical model of nanobeams with temperature-dependent properties is a major and important topic for the design of NEMS. This paper aims to discuss nonlocal nanobeams analysis depending on the theories of Euler–Bernoulli and modified couple-stress (MCS). It also is assumed that the thermal conductivity of the nanobeam is dependent on the temperature. Physical fields of the nanobeam are obtained utilizing Laplace transform and state-space techniques. The effects of the size and nonlocal parameters, variability of thermal conductivity and couple stress on various distributions are presented graphically and studied in detail. Numerical results are presented as application scales and the design of nanoparticles, nanoscale oscillators, atomic force microscopes, and nanogenerators, in which nanoparticles as nanobeams act as essential and basic elements.

The Response of Nanobeams with Temperature-Dependent Properties Using State-Space Method via Modified Couple Stress Theory

Estimation of carbon nanotubes and their applications as reinforcing composite materials–An engineering review

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are principal constituents of nanocomposites and nano-systems. CNT size-dependent response assessment is therefore a topic of current interest in Mechanics of Advanc...

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Nonlinear forced vibration analysis of micro-rotating shaft–disk systems through a formulation based on the nonlocal strain gradient theory