This handbook covers all areas of nonlocal continuum mechanics including theoretical aspects,computational procedures, and experimental advances. The multidisciplinary scope of articles that comprise this reference are written by internationally recognized experts in the field and stand as the most-up-to-date, established knowledge base on using nonlocal continuum mechanics to characterize material behavior for advanced composites and nano-materials, as well as for engineering scale structures. The handbook is at once a comprehensive reference for academic researchers and engineers in industry concerned with nonlocal continuum mechanics for materials and structures as well as a supplement for graduate courses on a range of topics.

Table of Contents:
Size Effects and Material Length Scales in Nanoindentation for Metals Size Effects During Nanoindentation: Molecular Dynamics Simulation Molecular Dynamics-Decorated Finite Element Method (MDeFEM): Application to the Gating Mechanism of Mechanosensitive Channels Spherical Indentation on a Prestressed Elastic Coating/Substrate System Experimentation and Modeling of Mechanical Integrity and Instability at Metal/Ceramic Interfaces Uniqueness of Elastoplastic Properties Measured by Instrumented Indentation Helical Buckling Behaviors of the Nanowire/Substrate System Hydrogen Embrittlement Cracking Produced by Indentation Test Continuous Stiffness Measurement Nanoindentation Experiments on Polymeric Glasses: Strain Rate Alteration Shear Transformation Zones in Amorphous Polymers: Geometrical and Micromechanical Properties Properties of Material Interfaces: Dynamic Local Versus Nonlocal Nanostructural Response to Plastic Deformation in Glassy Polymers Indentation Fatigue Mechanics Crack Initiation and Propagation in Laminated Composite Materials Micromorphic approach to gradient plasticity and damage   Higher Order Thermo-mechanical Gradient Plasticity Model: Non-proportional Loading with Energetic and Dissipative Components Micropolar Crystal Plasticity Micromorphic Crystal Plasticity Cosserat Approach to Localization in Geomaterials Dispersion of Waves in Micromorphic Media and Metamaterials Implicit Nonlocality in the Framework of Viscoplasticity Finite Element Analysis of Thermodynamically Consistent Strain Gradient Plasticity Theory and Applications Fractional Nonlocal Continuum Mechanics and Microstructural Models Fractional Differential Calculus and Continuum Mechanics Continuum Homogenization of Fractal Media Modeling High-Speed Impact Failure of Metallic Materials: Nonlocal Approaches Strain Gradient Plasticity: Deformation Patterning, Localization, and Fracture Strain Gradient Crystal Plasticity: Thermodynamics and Implementation Strain Gradient Crystal Plasticity: Intergranular Microstructure Formation Microplane Models for Elasticity and Inelasticity of Engineering Materials Modeling Temperature-Driven Ductile-to-Brittle Transition Fracture in Ferritic Steels Size-Dependent Transverse Vibration of Microbeams Axial Vibration of Strain Gradient Micro-rods Peridynamics: Introduction Recent Progress in Mathematical and Computational Aspects of Peridynamics Optimization-Based Coupling of Local and Nonlocal Models: Applications to Peridynamics Bridging Local and Nonlocal Models: Convergence and Regularity Dynamic Brittle Fracture from Nonlocal Double-Well Potentials: A State-Based Model Nonlocal Operators with Local Boundary Conditions: An Overview Peridynamics and Nonlocal Diffusion Models: Fast Numerical Methods Peridynamic Functionally Graded and Porous Materials: Modeling Fracture and Damage Numerical Tools for Improved Convergence of Meshfree Peridynamic Discretizations Well-Posed Nonlinear Nonlocal Fracture Models Associated with Double-Well Potentials Finite Differences and Finite Elements in Nonlocal Fracture Modeling: A Priori Convergence Rates Dynamic Damage Propagation with Memory: A State-Based Model