Recent Advances and Applications in Nanomechanics

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue marks the 30th anniversary of the discovery of carbon nanotubes by Sumio Iijima, which triggered an exponential growth of interest in nanoscience and nanotechnology, and its main objective is to collect innovative contributions on the size-dependent behaviour of nano-engineered materials and small-scale structures for the design and optimisation of micro- and nano-electro-mechanical systems. Nanomechanics can be conveniently exploited to describe technically significant scale phenomena which do not occur in classical aerospace, civil and mechanical engineering structures. The development of adequate models, rigorously verified by experiments or numerical calculations using molecular dynamics, is driven by interests of the rapidly growing nanotechnology industry. This Special Issue should bridge, at least in part, this gap between real-life behaviour and mechanical models of nanoscopic structures.

Contributions are invited from the broad field of nanomechanics, including but not limited to the following:

• Static and dynamic models describing the mechanical behaviour of one- and two-dimensional nanostructures;
• Characterisation of the mechanical behaviour of nanoscale materials, either through experimental techniques or molecular dynamics;
• Mechanics involved in the description of nanocomposite materials;
• Mechanical behaviour of nanostructures under the influence of coupling phenomena such as thermomechanics, nanofluids, piezoelectricity, chemical effects, etc.;
• Computational methods used in the modelling of nanostructures;
• Applications of theoretical models as well as experiments of sensors operating at the nanoscale.

Prof. Dr. Marko Čanađija
Prof. Dr. Raffaele Barretta
Guest Editors

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