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Elias AifantisAristotle University of ThessalonikiNewton / Hooke, Fick / Fourier, And Coulomb / Maxwell Revisited Modelling, Materials & Processes Interdisciplinary symposium for sustainable development Back to Plenary Lectures » |
Abstract: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. |
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