Diao et al. [1] were the first who discussed the effects of the free surfaces on the structure and the elastic properties of the gold nanowires by atomistic simulations. Although the atomistic simulation is a good method to calculate the elastic parameters of the nano-structured materials, it is only used to homogeneous nano-structured materials (e.g., nano-plates, nano-wires, nano-beams, … , etc.) with a finite number of atoms.

Recently, nano mechanical resonators have attracted considerable attention due to their many applications on technology. The analysis of various effects on the characteristics of resonators, such as the resonant frequencies and the quality factorsis crucial for designing high-performance components. Many authors have studied the vibration and the heat transfer process of nano-beams [2] - [8] . Kidawa [2] studied a problem of transverse vibrations of a beam induced by a mobile heat source. The analytical solution of the problem was obtained by using the Green’s functions method. While, Kidawa did not consider the thermoelastic coupling effect between the governing equations. Boley [3] studied the vibrations of a simply supported rectangular nano-beam affected by a thermal shock distributed along its span. Manolis and Beskos [4] discussed the thermally induced vibration of structures consisting of nano-beams, exposed to rapid surface heating. They have also studied the effects of the damping and the axial loads on the structural response. Al-Huniti et al. [5] investigated the thermally induced displacements and stresses of a rod using the Laplace transforms technique. Ai Kah Soh et al. studied the vibration of micro/nano-scale beam resonators induced by ultra-short-pulsed laser by considering the thermoelastic coupling term in [6] and [7] . The propagation characteristics of the longitudinal wave in nano-plates with small- scale effects are studied by Wang et al. [8] .

The temperature dependence of the Young’s modulus for some materials was measured in the range of 293K and 973 K, using the impulse excitation method and compared with literature data reported. The data could be fitted with [9]

The values of parameters E₀ and T₀ are related to the temperature and the parameter B to the harmonic character of the medium.

Farraro and Rex found that no departure from linearity was detected when they studied the dependency of the Young’s modulus on the temperature, and the get the linear relation [10]

where is the Young’s modulus in the standard case and is constant, and they measured it for pure Nickel, Platinum, and Molybdenum.

Now, we will consider the Young’s modulus depends on the temperature by the following function

where is constant and

In this paper, the non-Fourier effect on heat conduction, and the coupling effect between temperature and strain rate in the nano-scale beam will be studied when Young’s modulus is variable as a function of temperature. A general solution for the generalized thermoelastic vibration of gold nano-beam resonator induced by thermal shock will be developed. Laplace transforms and direct method will be used to get the lateral vibration, the temperature, the displacement, the stress-strain energy of the beam. The effects of Young’s modulus will be studied and represented graphically.

Since nano-beams with rectangular cross-sections are easier to fabricate, such cross-sections are commonly adopted in the design of NEMS resonators. Consider small flexural deflections of a thin elastic beam of length

, width and thickness, for which the x, y and z-axes are defined

along the longitudinal, width and thickness directions of the beam, respectively (Figure 1). In equilibrium, the beam is unstrained, unstressed, without damping mechanism, and the temperature is T₀ everywhere [6] .

In the present work, the Euler-Bernoulli equation is considered, and then, any plane cross-section, initially perpendicular to the axis of the beam remains plane and perpendicular to the neutral surface during bending. Thus, the displacements are given by [6] [7] :

Thus, the differential equation of thermally induced lateral vibration of the beam may be expressed in the form [6] [7] [11] -[13] :

where the density of the beam, E is Young’s modulus, I [= bh³/12] the inertial moment about x-axis, the coefficient of linear thermal expansion, the lateral deflection, x the distance along the length of the beam, is the area of the cross section and t the time and is the thermal moment as follows [6] [7] [11] -[13] :

where is the dynamical temperature increment of the resonator, T(x, z, t) is the temperature distribution, and T₀ the room temperature.

According to Lord-Shulman model (L-S), the non-Fourier heat conduction equation has the following form [6] [7] [11] -[14] :

Where is the volumetric strain, is the specific heat at constant volume, the thermal relaxation time, K the thermal conductivity, and is Poisson’s ratio. Where there is no heat flow across the upper and lower surfaces of the beam, so that at For a very thin nano-beam

and assuming the temperature varies in terms of a function along the thickness direction [6] [7] [11] -[13] , where, gives

Hence, Equation (6) gives

Moreover, Equation (8) gives

After doing the integrations, Equation (10) takes the form

In Equation (11), we multiply the both sides by z and integrating with respect to z from to, and then

we obtain

where.

For simplicity, we will use the following dimensionless variables [15] :

Then, we have

and

where

, , ,.

For convenience, we dropped the prime.

Applying the Laplace transform for Equations (14) and (15), this is defined by the following formula

.

Hence, we obtain the following system

and

We will consider the function as follows:

Then, we have

and

where, , , ,.

Consider the first end of the beam x = 0 is clamped and loaded thermally, which gives [6] [7] :

and

where is constant.

By using Laplace transform, the conditions will take the forms

and

Consider the other end of the beam is clamped and remains at zero increments of temperature as follows:

After using Laplace transform, we have

After some simplifications by using MAPLE programme, we get the final solutions in the Laplace transform domain as follows:

The lateral deflection

The temperature

The displacement

The Strain

where

and are the roots of the equation

and

, and.

The stress on the x-axis, according to Hooke’s law is:

By using the non-dimensional variables in (13), we obtain the stress in the form

By using Laplace transform, the above equation takes the form:

The stress-strain energy, which is generated by the beam, is given by

We can re-write Equation (36) to be in the form

is the inversion of Laplace transform.

To complete the solution in the Laplace transform domain, we have to determine the type of heating which we have used to load the boundary of the medium thermally.

We have applied harmonic thermal loading as follows [16] :

after using Laplace transform, we obtain

is the angular frequency of thermal vibration.

To determine the solutions in the time domain, the Riemann-sum approximation method is used to obtain the numerical results. In this method, any function in Laplace domain can be inverted to the time domain as

where Re is the real part and i is imaginary number unit. For faster convergence, numerous numerical experiments have shown that the value of satisfies the relation Tzou [17] .

Now, we will consider a numerical example for which computational results are given. For this purpose, Gold (Au) is taken as the thermoelastic material for which we take the following values of the different physical constants [18] :

, , , , , ,.

The aspect ratios of the beam are fixed as and when h is varied, and b change accordingly with h.

For the nano-scale beam, we will take the range of the beam length . The original time t will be considered in the picoseconds and the relaxation time in the range.

The figures (Figure 2-7) were prepared by using the non-dimensional variables which are defined in (9) for beam length, and.

The Young’s modulus has significant effects on all the studied fields. The values of the temperature, the vibra-

tion of the deflection, stress, displacement, strain, stress-strain energy increase when the Young’s modulus is variable. The peak points of all the distributions increase when the Young’s modulus is variable with large differences in the case of Young’s modulus is constant.

Eman A. N.Al-Lehaibi,Hamdy M.Youssef, (2015) Vibration of Gold Nano-Beam with Variable Young’s Modulus Due to Thermal Shock. World Journal of Nano Science and Engineering,05,194-203. doi: 10.4236/wjnse.2015.54020