Published by Springer International Publishing in 2019, the book titled "Computational Continuum Mechanics of Nanoscopic Structures" won the 2021 Best Scientific Book award of COMSTECH. This work is coauthored by Prof. Hashem Rafiei-Tabar, associate fellow of the Department of Basic Sciences of the Academy, and Professor, Medical Physics and Engineering Department, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences; and Dr. Ismail Ghavanloo and Prof. Seyed Ahmad Fazelzadeh, Faculty Members, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shiraz University. The book was unveiled in 2019 in the honoring ceremony of Abu Reihan Biruni at the Academy of Sciences of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

In Prof. Rafiei-Tabar’ view, one of the distinguishing features of the book is that it is the result of the collaboration between Shiraz University and Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. He added that the book’s innovative aspect is that it employs the advanced views of Mechanics of continuous systems to analyze fragmented systems, especially in the field of nano. Moreover, the cutting-edge approaches of this work help us study biological systems.

The book offers a comprehensive treatment of nonlocal elasticity theory as applied to the prediction of the mechanical characteristics of various types of biological and non-biological nanoscopic structures with different morphologies and functional behavior. It combines fundamental notions and advanced concepts, covering both the theory of nonlocal elasticity and the mechanics of nanoscopic structures and systems.

Compiled in 12 chapters and 281 pages, the book is suitable for use by a wide range of graduate students, researchers and scientists in different disciplines including nanotechnology, computational physics and mechanical engineering.