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Crack Nucleation In A Peridynamic Solid, S. Silling, O. Weckner, E. Askari, Florin Bobaru
Crack Nucleation In A Peridynamic Solid, S. Silling, O. Weckner, E. Askari, Florin Bobaru
Florin Bobaru Ph.D.
A condition for the emergence of a discontinuity in an elastic peridynamic body is proposed, resulting in a material stability condition for crack nucleation. The condition is derived by determining whether a small discontinuity in displacement, superposed on a possibly large deformation, grows over time. Stability is shown to be determined by the sign of the eigenvalues of a tensor field that depends only on the linearized material properties. This condition for nucleation of a discontinuity in displacement can be interpreted in terms of the dynamic stability of plane waves with very short wavelength. A numerical example illustrates that cracks …