inspired by the rise on the interest for nonlocal models, mainly peridynamics, we decided to study a functional framework suitable for (variational) nonlocal models, such as that of nonlocal hyperelasticity. this has lead to a nonlocal framework based on truncated fractional gradients (i.e. nonlocal gradients with a fractional singularity defined over bounded domains), in which continuous and compact embeddings and, in particular, nonlocal poincaré inqualities has been obtained thanks to a nonlocal version of the fundamental theorem of calculus. as a consequence, the existence of minimizers of nonlocal polyconvex vectorial functionals is obtained, and more recently quasiconvex functionals. some of these last results have been obtained from a result that relates nonlocal gradients with classical ones and vice-versa. these results are accompanied by a study of the localization (recovering of the classical model) when s goes to 1 (actually, continuity on s with s being the fractional index of differentiability).