IUTAM Symposium on Size Effects on Material and Structural Behavior at Micron- and Nano-Scales

Preface; Committees and Sponsors; List of Participants; List of Contributors; Session Program; Tunable Ferroelectric Phase Transition, by B. Wang, C.H. Woo and Y. Zheng; Multi-scale Characterizations for Ductile Thin Film Delamination, by Y.-G.. Wei and G..-S. Xu; Fractal and Scaling Phenomena on Fracture at Micro-scales, by C.-S. Lu, Y.-W. Mai and Y.-L Bai; Numerical Simulation of Size Effects of Microcracked Elastic Solids, by X. Q. Feng; Morphological Instability and Kinetics of an Elastic Film on a Viscoelastic Layer, by S. H. Im and R. Huang; A Multi-scale Model-Based Simulation of Thin Film Delamination, by L.-M. Shen and Z. Chen; Interface Fracture: A Study Based on the Conventional Theory of Mechanism-Based Strain Gradient Plasticity, by S. Qu, Y. Huang, C. Liu and K. C. Hwang; Deformation and Diffusion in Nano-grained Metals, by W. Yang, X.-L. Ma, H. T. Wang and W. Hong; Multiscale Analysis of Strength Enhancement of Cellular Materials under Impact Loading, by H. Zhao and S. Abdennadher; Particle Size Effects in Nanocomposites, by A. Zaoui, V. Marcadon and E. Herve; Effects of the Structural Topology and Connection Size on the Strength of Circular Honeycombs under In-Plane Compression, by T. X. Yu and D. Karagiozova; Time-Dependent Plasticity in the Submicron Regime, by A. H. W. Ngan, G.. Feng, B. Tang, H. Li and P. C. Wo; Energy Penalties in Materials with Microstructures of Phase Transitions: Modified Gibbs Phase Rule, by Y. Huo and I. Muller; The Cahn-Hilliard Phase-Field Model for Topology Optimization of Solids, by M. Y. Wang and S. Zhou; An Experimental Investigation of the Relationship between Molecular Structure and Length Scales in Inelastic Deformation of an Amorphous Thermoplastic, by J. Agde Tjernlund, E. K. Gamstedt and P. Gudmundson; Modeling of Austenite/Martensite Laminates with Interfacial Energy Effect, by H. Petryk, S. Stupkiewicz and G. Maciejewski; Mechanism-Based Strain Gradient Crystal Plasticity, by C.-S. Han, H. Gao, Y. Huang andW. D. Nix; Size Effect Down to Nanoscales: Function over Strength, by W.-L. Guo and Y.-F. Guo; Micromechanics of Micropolar Composites, by G.-K. Hu; Asymptotic Model Equation for Phase Transition in a Slender Circular Elastic Cylinder, by H. H. Dai; Effect of Phase Transition on the Unusual Microwear Behavior of Superelastic NiTi SMA, by L. M. Qian, Q. P. Sun and X. D. Xiao; Homogenization Method for Strength and Inelastic Behavior of Nanocrystalline Materials, by L. Capolungo, M. Cherkaoui and J. Qu; Instability and Hysteresis in Thermoelastic Tension Strips, by Y. J. He and Q. P. Sun; Effective Elastic Modulus of Nano-Particles, by R. Dingreville, J. Qu and M. Cherkaoui; Nanoindentations and Theory of Strain Gradient Viscoelasticity, by L. H. Keung, D. C. C. Lam and P. Tong; Author Index.