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A coarsening method for linear peridynamics

Silling, Stewart A.

A method is obtained for deriving peridynamic material models for a sequence of increasingly coarsened descriptions of a body. The starting point is a known detailed, small scale linearized state-based description. Each successively coarsened model excludes some of the aterial present in the previous model, and the length scale increases accordingly. This excluded material, while not present explicitly in the coarsened model, is nevertheless taken into account implicitly through its effect on the forces in the coarsened material. Numerical examples emonstrate that the method accurately reproduces the effective elastic properties of a composite as well as the effect of a small defect in a homogeneous medium.

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TYPE SAND Report YEAR 2010
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Peridynamic theory of solid mechanics

Proposed for publication in Advances in Applied Mechanics.

Silling, Stewart A.; Lehoucq, Richard B.

The peridynamic theory of mechanics attempts to unite the mathematical modeling of continuous media, cracks, and particles within a single framework. It does this by replacing the partial differential equations of the classical theory of solid mechanics with integral or integro-differential equations. These equations are based on a model of internal forces within a body in which material points interact with each other directly over finite distances. The classical theory of solid mechanics is based on the assumption of a continuous distribution of mass within a body. It further assumes that all internal forces are contact forces that act across zero distance. The mathematical description of a solid that follows from these assumptions relies on partial differential equations that additionally assume sufficient smoothness of the deformation for the PDEs to make sense in either their strong or weak forms. The classical theory has been demonstrated to provide a good approximation to the response of real materials down to small length scales, particularly in single crystals, provided these assumptions are met. Nevertheless, technology increasingly involves the design and fabrication of devices at smaller and smaller length scales, even interatomic dimensions. Therefore, it is worthwhile to investigate whether the classical theory can be extended to permit relaxed assumptions of continuity, to include the modeling of discrete particles such as atoms, and to allow the explicit modeling of nonlocal forces that are known to strongly influence the behavior of real materials.

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TYPE Journal Article YEAR 2010
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Implementing peridynamics within a molecular dynamics code

Computer Physics Communications

Parks, Michael L.; Lehoucq, Richard B.; Plimpton, Steven J.; Silling, Stewart A.

Peridynamics (PD) is a continuum theory that employs a nonlocal model to describe material properties. In this context, nonlocal means that continuum points separated by a finite distance may exert force upon each other. A meshless method results when PD is discretized with material behavior approximated as a collection of interacting particles. This paper describes how PD can be implemented within a molecular dynamics (MD) framework, and provides details of an efficient implementation. This adds a computational mechanics capability to an MD code, enabling simulations at mesoscopic or even macroscopic length and time scales. © 2008 Elsevier B.V.

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TYPE Journal Article YEAR 2008
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Peridynamics with LAMMPS : a user guide

Parks, Michael L.; Plimpton, Steven J.; Lehoucq, Richard B.; Silling, Stewart A.

Peridynamics is a nonlocal formulation of continuum mechanics. The discrete peridynamic model has the same computational structure as a molecular dynamic model. This document details the implementation of a discrete peridynamic model within the LAMMPS molecular dynamic code. This document provides a brief overview of the peridynamic model of a continuum, then discusses how the peridynamic model is discretized, and overviews the LAMMPS implementation. A nontrivial example problem is also included.

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TYPE SAND Report YEAR 2008
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Statistical coarse-graining of molecular dynamics into peridynamics

Lehoucq, Richard B.; Silling, Stewart A.

This paper describes an elegant statistical coarse-graining of molecular dynamics at finite temperature into peridynamics, a continuum theory. Peridynamics is an efficient alternative to molecular dynamics enabling dynamics at larger length and time scales. In direct analogy with molecular dynamics, peridynamics uses a nonlocal model of force and does not employ stress/strain relationships germane to classical continuum mechanics. In contrast with classical continuum mechanics, the peridynamic representation of a system of linear springs and masses is shown to have the same dispersion relation as the original spring-mass system.

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TYPE SAND Report YEAR 2007
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A mathematical framework for multiscale science and engineering : the variational multiscale method and interscale transfer operators

Bochev, Pavel B.; Collis, Samuel S.; Jones, Reese E.; Lehoucq, Richard B.; Parks, Michael L.; Scovazzi, Guglielmo S.; Silling, Stewart A.; Templeton, Jeremy A.

This report is a collection of documents written as part of the Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) project A Mathematical Framework for Multiscale Science and Engineering: The Variational Multiscale Method and Interscale Transfer Operators. We present developments in two categories of multiscale mathematics and analysis. The first, continuum-to-continuum (CtC) multiscale, includes problems that allow application of the same continuum model at all scales with the primary barrier to simulation being computing resources. The second, atomistic-to-continuum (AtC) multiscale, represents applications where detailed physics at the atomistic or molecular level must be simulated to resolve the small scales, but the effect on and coupling to the continuum level is frequently unclear.

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