Buckling of nanobeams and nanorods with cracks

Abstract

Buckling of nanobeams and nanorods is treated with the help of the nonlocal theory of elasticity. The nanobeams under consideration have piecewise constant dimensions of cross sections and are weakened with cracks or cracklike defects emanating at the re-entrant corners of steps. A general method for determination of critical buckling loads of stepped nanobeams with cracks is developed. The influence of defects on the critical buckling load is evaluated numerically and compared with similar results of other researchers.