This volume is a collection of twenty five written contributions by distinguished invited speakers from seven countries to the IUTAM Symposium on Size Effects on Material and Structural Behavior at Micron- and Nano-scales. Size effects on material and structural behaviors are of great interest to physicists, material scientists, and engineers who need to understand and model the mechanical behavior of solids especially at micron- and nano-scales.

"Size effects on material and structural behaviors are of great interest to physicists, material scientists, and engineers who need to understand and model the mechanical behavior of solids especially at micron- and nano-scales. This volume is a collection of twenty five written contributions by distinguished invited speakers from seven countries to the IUTAM Symposium on Size Effects on Material and Structural Behavior at Micron- and Nano-scales. It contains basic theoretical and experimental aspects of the recent advances in the mechanics research of various size effects. Main topics include: behaviors of materials and structures at micron- and nanometer-scales; physical bases of size effects; adaptive and multi-functional behaviors of materials at small scales; size effects in fracture and phase transformation of solids; multi-scale modeling and simulation; size effects in material instability and its propagation, etc. Due to the multidisciplinary nature of the research covered, this volume will be of interest to engineers, scientists, researchers, and graduate students in the field of theoretical and applied mechanics, materials science as well as technology."

Tunable Ferroelectric Phase Transition.- Multi-scale Characterizations for Ductile Thin Film Delamination.- Fractal and Scaling Phenomena on Fracture at Micro-scales.- Numerical Simulation of Size Effects of Microcracked Elastic Solids.- Morphological Instability and Kinetics of an Elastic Film on a Viscoelastic Layer.- A Multi-scale Model-Based Simulation of Thin Film Delamination.- Interface Fracture: A Study Based on the Conventional Theory of Mechanism-Based Strain Gradient Plasticity.- Deformation and Diffusion in Nano-grained Metals.- Multiscale Analysis of Strength Enhancement of Cellular Materials under Impact Loading.- Particle Size Effects in Nanocomposites.- Effects of the Structural Topology and Connection Size on the Strength of Circular Honeycombs under In-Plane Compression.- Time-Dependent Plasticity in the Submicron Regime.- Energy Penalties in Materials with Microstructures of Phase Transitions: Modified Gibbs Phase Rule.- The Cahn-Hilliard Phase-Field Model for Topology Optimization of Solids.- An Experimental Investigation of the Relationship between Molecular Structure and Length Scales in Inelastic Deformation of an Amorphous Thermoplastic.- Modeling of Austenite/Martensite Laminates with Interfacial Energy Effect.- Mechanism-Based Strain Gradient Crystal Plasticity.- Size Effect Down to Nanoscales: Function over Strength.- Micromechanics of Micropolar Composites.- Asymptotic Model Equation for Phase Transitions in a Slender Circular Elastic Cylinder.- Effect of Phase Transition on the Unusual Microwear Behavior of Superelastic NiTi SMA.- Homogenization Method for Strength and Inelastic Behavior of Nanocrystalline Materials.- Instability and Hysteresis in Thermoelastic Tension Strips.- Effective Elastic Modulus of Nano-Particles.- Nanoindentations and Theory of Strain Gradient Viscoelasticity.