The Born–Kirkwood–Onsager ~BKO! model of solvation, where a solute molecule is positioned inside a cavity cut into a solvent, which is considered as a dielectric continuum, is studied within the bounds of nonlocal electrostatics. The nonlocal cavity model is explicitly formulated and the corresponding nonlocal Poisson equation is reduced to an integral equation describing the behavior of the ch...

Buckling analysis of a functionally graded (FG) nanobeam resting on two-parameter elastic foundation is presented based on third-order shear deformation beam theory (TOSDBT). The in-plane displacement of TOSDBT has parabolic variation through the beam thickness. Also, TOSDBT accounts for shear deformation effect and verifies stress-free boundary conditions on upper and lower faces of FG nanobea...

A damage-plasticity constitutive model for the description of fracture in plain concrete is presented. Two approaches, the local model comprising the adjustment of the softening modulus and the nonlocal model based on spatial averaging of history variables, are applied to the analysis of a concrete bar subjected to uniaxial tension and to a three-point bending test. The influence of mesh size a...

As the plasmonic scatterers get much smaller than the wavelength of the incident light, local material models like the Drude model and the Lorentz model become inadequate to describe accurately the light-matter interactions. To overcome this, a sophisticated nonlocal hydrodynamic Drude model is investigated. In practice, it is further simplified and simulated with the curl-free approximation, w...

A single crystal plasticity theory for insertion into finite element simulation is formulated using sequential laminates to model subgrain dislocation structures. It is known that local models do not adequately account for latent hardening, as latent hardening is not only a material property, but a nonlocal property (e.g. grain size and shape). The addition of the nonlocal energy from the forma...

A size-dependent Euler–Bernoulli beam model, which accounts for nonlocal stress field, strain gradient field and higher order inertia force field, is derived based on the nonlocal strain gradient theory considering velocity gradient effect. The governing equations and boundary conditions are derived both in dimensional and dimensionless form by employed the Hamilton principle. The analytical so...

A nonlocal constitutive formulation for a porous ductile material is investigated, in which delocalizadon relates to the damage mechanism. An elastic-viscoplastic material model is used, with delocalization incorporated in terms of an integral condition on the rate of increase of the void volume fraction. Two model problems are analysed to study the effect of including this material length, one...

We study the bound states of two-dimensional bright solitons in nonlocal nonlin-ear media. The general properties and stability of these multisolitary structures are investigated analytically and numerically. We have found that a steady bound state of coherent nonrotating and rotating solitary structures (azimuthons) can exist above some threshold power. A dipolar nonrotating multisoliton occur...