title: The mechanically based non-local elasticity: an overview of main results and future challenges.
abstract: The mechanically based non-local elasticity has been used, recently, in wider and wider engineering applications involving small-size devices and/or materials with marked microstructures. The key feature of the model involves the presence of non-local effects as additional body forces acting on material masses and depending on their relative displacements. An overview of the main results of the theory is reported in this paper.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Ambientale, Aerospaziale, dei Materiali, Viale delle Scienze, ed. 8, 90128 Palermo, Italy.
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Di Paola
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Failla
authors.forename: Antonina
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pirrotta
authors.forename: Alba
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sofi
authors.forename: Massimiliano
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zingales
keywords: long-range interactions; long-range resultants; non-local elasticity; waves propagation