The Role of Nonlocality in Continuum Mechanics, by Dr. Stewart Silling

Title: The Role of Nonlocality in Continuum Mechanics Speaker: Stewart Silling, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff Sandia National Laboratories Abstract: Nonlocal modeling has gained interest within the mechanics community in recent years. Advances in computer power have enabled the routine use of nonlocal modeling in applications. This talk will cover some of the motivations and useful features of nonlocality in mechanics. Among these is the regularization of singularities such as fracture and phase boundaries. It will be demonstrated that nonlocality in a continuum description emerges from a coarse-grained representation of a smaller-scale system. Nonlocality also has a natural role in the modeling of nanoscale systems in which material particles interact through long-range forces. For more information, please visit https://sites.google.com/view/onenonl...