Editors: | F. Kongoli, E. Aifantis, T. Vougiouklis, A. Bountis, P. Mandell, R. Santilli, A. Konstantinidis, G. Efremidis. |
Publisher: | Flogen Star OUTREACH |
Publication Year: | 2022 |
Pages: | 235 pages |
ISBN: | 978-1-989820-64-3(CD) |
ISSN: | 2291-1227 (Metals and Materials Processing in a Clean Environment Series) |
The talk ventures to describe a high-risk proposal to extend classical laws of mechanics and physics by enhancing them with a Laplacian term accounting for nonlocality and underlying heterogeneity effects. The approach is motivated by a robust gradient model of the classical theory of elasticity which in the last two decades has been shown very useful in eliminating undesirable singularities and interpreting size effects. Implications to a variety of unsettled questions across scales and disciplines are outlined.