| Issue |
EPL
Volume 77, Number 4, February 2007
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 44002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/77/44002 | |
| Published online | 02 February 2007 | |
Surface buckling of a bending microbeam due to surface elasticity
1
MOE Key Laboratory for Strength and Vibration, Department of Engineering Mechanics Xi'an Jiaotong University - Xi'an 710049, PRC
2
Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University - Beijing 100084, PRC
Corresponding author: wanggf@mail.xjtu.edu.cn
Received:
20
November
2006
Accepted:
13
December
2006
In the present letter, we studied the surface buckling of a bending beam using the surface elasticity theory, and the corresponding buckling wave number was obtained analytically. It is found that surfaces with positive surface elastic modulus may buckle under compression, while surfaces with negative surface elastic modulus are possible to wrinkle irrespective of the sign of surface strain. By this method, various surface buckling phenomena happened in thin films or carbon nanotubes can be elucidated.
PACS: 46.32.+x – Static buckling and instability / 68.35.Gy – Mechanical properties; surface strains / 47.54.-r – Pattern selection; pattern formation
© Europhysics Letters Association, 2007
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