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This paper investigates the applicability of the DK and DKM shell element classes for the first time within the framework of the standard (and sequential) finite-element-based limit analysis, which is a direct method used for determining…
This paper assesses the accuracy and convergence of the linear-elastic, bond-based Peridynamic model with brittle failure, known as the prototype micro-brittle (PMB) model. We investigate the discrete equations of this model, suitable for…
We consider the two-dimensional Kirchhoff-Love plate equation in the context of elasticity modeling the stresses and deformations in thin plates subjected to forces and moments. We establish global recovery of the material parameters like…
This work utilizes the Immersed Boundary Conformal Method (IBCM) to analyze Kirchhoff-Love and Reissner-Mindlin shell structures within an immersed domain framework. Immersed boundary methods involve embedding complex geometries within a…
Starting from a three-dimensional model based on the Ciarlet-Geymonat energy, we derive nonlinear shell models within the classical elasticity theory of compressible isotropic materials. The Neo-Hookean term involving the norm of the…
In this work we construct a low-order nonconforming approximation method for linear elasticity problems supporting general meshes and valid in two and three space dimensions. The method is obtained by hacking the Hybrid High-Order method,…
Peridynamics (PD) is widely used to simulate structural failure. However, PD models are time-consuming. To improve the computational efficiency, we developed an adaptive coupling model between PD and classical continuum mechanics (PD-CCM)…
This work presents a shear elastoplasticity model for textile fabrics within the theoretical framework of anisotropic Kirchhoff-Love shells with bending of embedded fibers proposed by Duong et al. (2023). The plasticity model aims at…
A thin shell finite element approach based on Loop's subdivision surfaces is proposed, capable of dealing with large deformations and anisotropic growth. To this end, the Kirchhoff-Love theory of thin shells is derived and extended to allow…
Peridynamics is a nonlocal continuum-mechanical theory based on minimal regularity on the deformations. Its key trait is that of replacing local constitutive relations featuring spacial differential operators with integrals over differences…
We perform a dimension reduction analysis for a coupled rate-dependent/rate-independent adhesive-contact model in the setting of visco-elastodynamic plates. We work with a weak solvability notion inspired by the theory of (purely)…
Fracture involves interaction across large and small length scales. With the application of enough stress or strain to a brittle material, atomistic scale bonds will break, leading to fracture of the macroscopic specimen. From the…
We propose a new peridynamic formulation with shear deformation for linear elastic solid. The key idea lies in subtracting the rigid body rotation part from the total deformation. Based on the strain energy equivalence between classic local…
Peridynamic (PD) theory is significant and promising in engineering and materials science; however, it imposes challenges owing to the enormous computational cost caused by its nonlocality. Our main contribution, which overcomes the…
This paper presents a unified framework for bond-associated peridynamic material correspondence models that were proposed to inherently address the issue of material instability or existence of zero-energy modes in the conventional…
The immersed peridynamics (IPD) method is a fluid-structure interaction (FSI) model to simulate fluid-driven material damage and failure of an immersed structure, in which a peridynamic (PD) constitutive correspondence model is employed…
In this article, we study the semi discrete and fully discrete formulations for a Kirchhoff type quasilinear integro-differential equation involving time-fractional derivative of order $\alpha \in (0,1) $. For the semi discrete formulation…
We propose an isogeometric approach to model the deformation of active thin films using layered, nonlinear, Kirchhoff Love shells. Isogeometric Collocation and Galerkin formulations are employed to discretize the electrophysiological and…
We extend the analysis and discretization of the Kirchhoff-Love plate bending problem from [T. F\"uhrer, N. Heuer, A.H. Niemi, An ultraweak formulation of the Kirchhoff-Love plate bending model and DPG approximation, arXiv:1805.07835, 2018]…
A flexoelectric peridynamic (PD) theory is proposed. Using the PD framework, the formulation introduces, perhaps for the first time, a nanoscale flexoelectric coupling that entails non-uniform strain in centrosymmetric dielectrics. This…