John A. Mitchell, Stewart A. Silling and David J.
Littlewood
Vol. 10 (2015), No. 5, 539–557
DOI: 10.2140/jomms.2015.10.539
Abstract
A position-aware linear solid (PALS) peridynamic constitutive model is proposed for
isotropic elastic solids. The PALS model addresses problems that arise, in ordinary
peridynamic material models such as the linear peridynamic solid (LPS), due
to incomplete neighborhoods near the surface of a body. Improved model
behavior in the vicinity of free surfaces is achieved through the application
of two influence functions that correspond, respectively, to the volumetric
and deviatoric parts of the deformation. The model is position-aware in
that the influence functions vary over the body and reflect the proximity of
each material point to free surfaces. Demonstration calculations on simple
benchmark problems show a sharp reduction in error relative to the LPS
model.