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The paper deals with the determination of the symmetric model and proper boundary conditions for solving nonlocal elastic symmetric structures. The above concepts, in the context of nonlocal integral elasticity, turn out to be different with respect to the standard ones, classically applied when dealing with local elastic symmetric structures. Indeed, when only a symmetric portion of the structure is analyzed, the nonlocal effects induced by the remaining (cut) portions are lost, this necessitates the consideration of an enlarged symmetric model on which appropriate nonlocal boundary conditions have to be imposed. It has to be pointed out how the width of such an enlarged model depends on the nonlocal material parameters, while the correct unknown nonlocal boundary conditions are here obtained and enforced by an iterative procedure. The accuracy of the proposed approach in solving nonlocal structural symmetric problems is tested with the aid of two numerical examples.
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Pisano, A.A., Fuschi, P. Structural symmetry and boundary conditions for nonlocal symmetrical problems. Meccanica 53, 629–638 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11012-017-0684-3
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