Includes bibliographical references.

Mesoscopic modeling of the deformation and fracture of nanocrystalline metals / Lallit Anand and Yujie Wei -- Dislocation-assisted grain growth in nanocrystaline copper under large deformation / X.L. Ma, H.T Wang and W. Yang -- Microstructure and tensile strength of cu with nano-scale twins / Y. Shen ... [et al.] -- Microstructural evolution in crystalline metal induced by plastic deformation / A. Nakatani and T Shirmokawa -- The origin of superhardness in nanocomposite coatings: analysis of nanoindentation and scratch tests / Chnsheng Lu, Yiu-Wing Mai and lao-Gen Shen -- Micromechanics of nanocomposites with interface energy effec / ZR Huanl and J. Wang -- Measurements and simulations of interface behavior in metal thin film peeling along ceramic substrate / Yueguang Wei, Haifeng Zhao and Siqi Shu -- Micro-cantileers for thin films: young's modulus / G.J. McShane ... [et al.] -- Bio-inspired mechanics of bone-like hierarchical material / Huajian Gao -- Force unfolding single RNAs: from equilibrium to far-from equilibrium / F Liu, Huan Tong and Zhong-Can Ou-Yang -- Modelling the thermal conductivity of nanofluids / P. Tillman and J.M. Hill -- A comparison of different interatomic potentials: radius effect of single wall carbon nanotubes / H. Jiang, Y. Huang and K.C Hwang -- Shape memory effect and pseudoelasticity in CU nanowires / Wweiw Liang and Min Zhou -- Instabilities of carbon nanotubes studied using a hybrid atomn/continuum approach / L.- Wang and Q.-S. Heng -- Shallow and deep nanoindentation on W/NbN nanolayers / S.X. Mao, B.M. Ennis and Y.G. Wei -- Cluster statistical thermodynanics (CST) to efficiently calculate quasi-static deformation at finite temperature based on molecular potential / Ming Hu ... [et al.] -- On the size of the representative volume element for isotropic elastic polycrystalline copper / F. El Houdaigui, S. Forest A.-F. Goutgues and D. Jeulin -- Atomistic corroboration of a multiscale approach for the analysis of dislocation nucleation at a surface step / G. Xu, D.E. Segall and C Li -- Indenter tip radius and micro-indentation hardness / C.J Tao ... [et al.] -- The phase angle of an interface crack induced by indentation delamination with bukling / Tong- Yi Zhang, Bin Huang and Ming-Hao Zhao -- Microscopic shape memory and superelastic effects and their novel tribological applications / Yang-Tse Cheng ... [et al.] -- Dynamics of self-organized epitaxial island formation under controlled annealing / Y. Ni, A.K. Soh andL. H. He -- Studying visco-plasticity of amorphous polymers by indentation tests / C . Zihang ... [et al.] -- Phase transitions of carbon materials under high pressure / Wain Guo, Yitao Dai and Bin Zhang.

Consisting of approximately 30 presentations from distinguished scholars, this text contains the proceedings of the 'IUTAM Symposium on Mechanical Behavior and Micro-Mechanisms of Nanostructured Materials', held in Bejing, China, during June 2005.

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