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Finite element analysis of self-positioning microstructures and nanostructures

G P Nikishkov, I Khmyrova and V Ryzhii

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The finite element method is used for modelling of self-positioning microstructures and nanostructures. The geometrically nonlinear problem with large rotations and large displacements is solved using a step procedure with coordinate updating after each step. It is shown that the real shape of the self-positioning structures is rather complicated and the analytical formulae have limited applicability in the estimation of such parameters as the curvature radius and/or angle of elevation.


PACS

61.46.-w Structure of nanoscale materials

02.70.Dh Finite-element and Galerkin methods

62.25.-g Mechanical properties of nanoscale systems

Subjects

Computational physics

Nanoscale science and low-D systems

Dates

Issue 7 (July 2003)

Received 1 March 2003, in final form 17 April 2003

Published 28 May 2003



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