Mechanics of Solids Theses and Dissertations

Theses and Dissertations for the Mechanics of Solids department.

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Description:: In 1959, physicist Richard Feynman gave a historical lecture: `There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom'. Even after sixty years, the exciting field of nanotechnology …
Year:: 2015
Contributor:: DATTA, DIBAKAR (creator); Shenoy, Vivek (Director); Bower, Allan (Reader); Guduru, Pradeep (Reader); Brown University. ENGINEERING: Mechanics of Solids (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Nanomechanics; Solid Mechanics; Fracture; Energy; Defective Graphene; Ion Batteries; Emerging Nanomaterials; Nanotechnology; Graphene; Friction; Nanomedicine; Power resources
Language:: English
Collection:: Engineering; Mechanics of Solids; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Self-organization, in one of its accepted definitions, is the appearance of non-random structures in a system without explicit constraints from forces outside the system. In …
Year:: 2008
Contributor:: Tambe, Dhananjay T. (creator); Shenoy, Vivek (director); Freund, Lambart (reader); Chason, Eric (reader); Brown University. Division of Engineering. Mechanics of Solids (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: self-organization; actin-based motility; effective force; mismatch strain; Nanostructures; Quantum dots
Language:: English
Collection:: Engineering; Mechanics of Solids; Theses and Dissertations; Engineering; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Two-dimensional (2D) materials exhibit ultra-high strength due to their nearly perfect lattice structures but low fracture toughness due to their lack of effective energy dissipation …
Year:: 2021
Contributor:: Ni, Bo (creator); Gao, Huajian (Advisor); Kim, Kyung-Suk (Reader); Lou, Jun (Reader); Brown University. Engineering: Mechanics of Solids (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Fractures; 2D Materials; Instabilities
Collection:: Engineering; Mechanics of Solids; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Phononic crystals are periodic, composite solids that exhibit phononic band gaps – frequency ranges in which elastic waves are prohibited. When made from soft elastomers, …
Year:: 2019
Contributor:: Jandron, Michael Anthony (creator); Henann, David (Advisor); Bower, Allan (Reader); Srivastava, Vikas (Reader); Belden, Jesse (Reader); Brown University. Engineering: Mechanics of Solids (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Elastic wave propagation; Elastomers; Dielectrics; Phononic Crystals; Instabilities; Pattern Transformation; Dielectric Elastomer
Collection:: Engineering; Mechanics of Solids; Theses and Dissertations

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