The Effects of Dimension Ratio and Horizon Length in the Micropolar Peridynamic Model

Y. Ferhat, I. Ozkol

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Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Aeronautical Eng. Dept,.

DOI: 10.4236/eng.2011.36071                

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of horizon selection on the elastic behaviour of plate type structures in the micropolar peridynamic theory. Plates with various lengths and widths have been investi-gated using micropolar peridynamic model for different horizon selections. The mathematical model of plates has been provided applying the micropolar peridynamic theory and solution of this model has been obtained by finite element methods. The displacement fields have been computed for the different horizons and dimension ratios of plates. To compute the displacement field a program code has been developed by using the software package MATHEMATICA. The results obtained have been compared with the analytical solution of the classical elasticity theory and with the solution of displacement based finite element methods. For displacement based finite element method solution the software package ANSYS has been used. Ac-cording to results it has been observed that the displacement fields of the plates are strongly affected by ho-rizon selection. Therefore a question raises that which horizon length should be used with the problem in hand or is there any method to find the appropriate/best horizon length.

Keywords

Peridynamics, Micropolar Peridynamics, Non-Local Continuum Mechanics, Horizon

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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