Abstract:The size dependent large displacement behavior of planar microbeams and microframes is studied in this paper using a corotational beam element. To account for the size effect, the modified couple stress theory (MCST) is employed in conjunction with Euler-Bernoulli beam theory in deriving the internal force vector and the tangent stiffness matrix of the beam element. The Newton-Raphson based iterative procedure is used in combination with the arc-length method to solve the nonlinear equilibrium equation and to … Show more
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