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Radial vibration of free anisotropic nanoparticles based on nonlocal continuum mechanics
Esmaeal Ghavanloo1, S Ahmad Fazelzadeh
1School of Mechanical Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.
Abstract:
Radial vibration of spherical nanoparticles made of materials with anisotropic elasticity is theoretically investigated using nonlocal continuum mechanics. The anisotropic elastic model is reformulated using the nonlocal differential constitutive relations of Eringen. The nonlocal differential equation of radial motion is derived in terms of radial displacement. Cubic, hexagonal, trigonal and tetragonal symmetries of the elasticity are discussed. The suggested model is justified by a good agreement between the results given by the present model and available experimental data. Furthermore, the model is used to elucidate the effect of small scale on the vibration of several nanoparticles. Our results show that the small scale is essential for the radial vibration of the nanoparticles when the nanoparticle radius is smaller than 1.5 nm.
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