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What do you see as the best explanations for validity of non-local & gradient constitutive models (considering metal plasticity and damage)? On many occations they naturally work much better than traditional models, but I'm looking for other directly physical phenomena based information, not that much one based on validation and verification by experimental results. Identification of characteristics measures by material microstructure etc. is often the taken course, but anything beyond and other than that ?