Surfaces and interfaces can significantly influence the overall response of a solid body.
Their behavior is well described by continuum theories that endow the surface and interface …

In Mechanics, material properties are most often regarded as being given, and based on
this, many technical solutions are usually conceived and constructed. However, nowadays …

In the last years, the rapid increase in the technical capability to control and design materials
at the nanoscale has pushed toward an intensive exploitation of new possibilities …

The objective of this contribution is to formulate a geometrically nonlinear theory of higher-
gradient elasticity accounting for boundary (surface and curve) energies. Surfaces and …

The determination of surface elastic moduli is discussed in the context of a recently
proposed strongly anisotropic surface elasticity model. The aim of the model was to describe …

The continuum modeling of the mechanical behavior of nanowires has recently attracted
much attention due to its simplicity and efficiency. However, there are still some critical …

In the most influential monograph on colloid and interfacial science by Adamson three
fundamental equations of “physical chemistry of surfaces” are identified: the Laplace …

Solid surface tension can deform soft elastic materials at macroscopic length scales. At a
critical surface tension, elastocapillary instabilities in soft filaments emerge that resemble the …

In the present paper, a system constituted by two families of nearly inextensible fibers is
studied. The interest towards this kind of structures, which can be suitably modeled by 2D …

Peridynamics (PD) is a non-local continuum formulation. The original version of PD was
restricted to bond-based interactions. Bond-based PD is geometrically exact and its …