“…In the framework of nonlocal elasticity, two of the most notable purely nonlocal constitutive laws are surely the softening or Eringen’s strain-driven nonlocal integral model (StrainDM) [ 14 , 15 ], in which the total stress of a given point is a function of the strain at all other adjacent points of the continuum, and the more recently hardening or stress-driven nonlocal integral model (StressDM) developed by Romano and Barretta [ 16 ], in which the strain at any point is resulted from the stress of all points. As widely discussed in [ 17 , 18 , 19 ], the differential formulation of StrainDM is ill-posed and leads to the unexpected paradoxical results for some boundary and loading conditions, unlike the well-posed StressDM that provides a consistent approach for the analysis of nanostructures [ 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 ].…”