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Fundamental Tenets of Nanomechanics

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Nanoscience is concerned with the study and understanding of phenomena that manifest themselves at the nanoscale, and nanotechnology refers to the synthesis, control, engineering, and manipulation of atomistic and molecular systems and structures. The appearance of nanoscience and nanotechnology has prompted fundamental and radical changes in varieties of scientific and engineering disciplines. Among the diverse branches of the nanoscience, the study and characterization of mechanical behaviour of physical systems at nanoscale form an interdisciplinary and cross disciplinary area referred to as nanomechanics. This branch of nanoscience has emerged from the interplay of classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, solid-state physics, and materials physics and chemistry. Nanomechanics differs from macroscopic mechanics in various aspects, and contains many subfields such as mechanics of nanocomposites, molecular dynamics, molecular mechanics, design of microelectromechanical and nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS and NEMS), and cellular biomechanics (V. Harik (ed.), Trends in Nanoscale Mechanics, Springer, New York, 2014) [1]. Nanoscale mechanics provides the scientific foundation and the infrastructure for nanotechnology and nanoengineering. This subfield of nanoscience has witnessed an explosive growth worldwide over the past decades.

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    Esmaeal Ghavanloo & Seyed Ahmad Fazelzadeh

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Ghavanloo, E., Rafii-Tabar, H., Fazelzadeh, S.A. (2019). Fundamental Tenets of Nanomechanics. In: Computational Continuum Mechanics of Nanoscopic Structures. Springer Tracts in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11650-7_2

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