• EFFECTS OF SURFACE TENSION ON FIXED-END NANO-BEAM SUBJECTED TO UNIFORM PRESSURE

Abstract

In this paper, the effects of surface tension on both ends fixed nano-beams subjected to uniform pressure are studied in the frame of surface elasticity theory. Ariy stress function methodology is used to obtain a set of analytical solutions. The analytical plane-stress solutions can be obtained for a uniformly pressure isotropic nano-beam with rectangular cross section classical boundary conditions. The results indicate some interesting characteristics, which are distinctly different from those in classical elasticity beam theory.