Size and surface effects on mechanical behavior of thin nanoplates incorporating microstructures using isogeometric analysis

In this paper, we present an effective plate formulation based on isogeometric analysis (IGA) and non-classical Kirchhoff plate theory for the study of static bending and buckling behaviors of nanoplates, taking into account microstructure and surface energy effects. In this setting, the modified couple stress theory is used to capture microstructure effect, while the Gurtin-Murdoch surface theory is adopted to consider surface energy effect....