“…Owing to his great discovery, Shechtman was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the International Union of Crystallography (1992) changed the official definition of a crystal. In the past three decades, the mechanical behaviors of QCs have stimulated much scientific interest and a variety of topics have been discussed, such as, dislocation (Lazar and Agiasofitou, 2014;Li and Liu, 2012), indentation (Wu et al, 2013;Li et al, 2014b), bending of layered plate , self-action in phason field (Colli and Mariano, 2011;Mariano and Planas, 2013), fundamental elastic fields in infinite and/or half infinite spaces Li et al, 2013;Li et al, 2014a), and so forth. As a class of novel materials, which have a lower friction coefficient, lower adhesion, higher wear resistance and lower porosity in comparison with traditional media, QCs have been found a plenty of potential industrial applications (Kenzari et al, 2012).…”