...Wenping Han; Shankun Liu; Ling Zhang; Zhaosong Ma; Fei Han Purpose This study develops PERISOFT, a peridynamic (PD) simulation software, to overcome PD theory's high computational costs and limited engineering applications by coupling PD with classical continuum mechanics (CCM), enabling efficient...

...Xiaolong Li; Xingguo Han Purpose A peridynamic (PD) frame element is presented to obtain the numerical solutions of the three-body potential (TBP) PD model implicitly within the finite element analysis (FEA) framework. Design/methodology/approach The bond vector described by the TBP PD model...

... fracturing branching is studied, and more evidence for the stepwise phenomenon with the peridynamics approach is provided. Design/methodology/approach A fully coupled fluid-filled explicit peridynamics model is developed to simulate the complex evolution of crack branching and stepwise phenomena...

...Ruqing Bai; Hakim Naceur; Jinglei Zhao; Jin Yi; Jie Ma; Huayan Pu; Jun Luo Purpose In this paper, the standard Peridynamic Timoshenko beam model accounting for the shear deformation is chosen to describe the thick beam kinematics. Unfortunately, when applied to very thin beam structures...

...Feng Jiang; Yongxing Shen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a novel quasi-nonlocal coupling of the bond-based peridynamic model with the classical continuum mechanics model to fully take advantage of their merits and be free of ghost forces. Design/methodology/approach This study...

...Xin Gu; Qing Zhang; Erdogan Madenci Purpose This paper aims to review the existing bond-based peridynamic (PD) and state-based PD heat conduction models, and further propose a refined bond-based PD thermal conduction model by using the PD differential operator. Design/methodology/approach...

...Arman Shojaei; Mirco Zaccariotto; Ugo Galvanetto Purpose The paper aims to use a switching technique which allows to couple a nonlocal bond-based Peridynamic approach to the Meshless Local Exponential Basis Functions (MLEBF) method, based on classical continuum mechanics, to solve planar problems...