Surface Effects on the Mechanical Properties of FCC Metal Nanowires
The major findings of this thesis are that free surfaces have enabled nanowires to show many unusual behavior and mechanical properties at nanoscale, including shape memory and pseudoelastic behavior, surface elasticity in hollow nanowires, and coupled effect from cross sectional geometry and side s...
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VANDERBILT
2007
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| Online Access: | http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-07172007-154709/ |