Abstract
The immediate future of scaling of structural strength in solid mechanics is expected to follow research in micro-mechanical basis of softening damage, physically justified nonlocal model, scaling of brittle compression fracture and shear fracture, and scaling of fracture at interfaces. The chapter encapsulates size effect on triggering of dry snow slab avalanches, boundary layer size effect in thin metallic films at micrometer scale, and recent debates on fractal theory of size effect and their impact on design codes. The problem of strength of elastic frames started to be tackled in the middle of the 19th century. The problem of scaling in quasibrittle materials is a part of damage mechanics, in which serious research started around 1960.
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