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Novel And Fast Peridynamic Models For Material Degradation And Failure, Siavash Jafarzadeh
Novel And Fast Peridynamic Models For Material Degradation And Failure, Siavash Jafarzadeh
Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Fracture is one of the main mechanisms of structural failure. Corroded surfaces with chemically-induced damage are, notably, potential sites for crack initiation and propagation in metals, which can lead to catastrophic failure of structures. Despite some progress in simulating fracture and damage using classical models, realistic prediction of complex damage progression and failure has been out of reach for many decades. Peridynamics (PD), a nonlocal theory introduced in 2000, opened up new avenues in modeling material degradation and failure. Existing numerical methods used to discretize PD equations, however, are quite expensive as the PD nonlocal interactions make them unaffordable for …