Peridynamic Prognostic Tool Potentiality Measured by the Finite Elements Method

Resumo

At different times and in different applications, humanity needed knowledge about flaws in materials,
such as cracks in structures and components, but the influence of such flaws was not clearly known. At the end
of the 20th century, a theory called Peridynamics emerged, first introduced by Stewart Silling[1], as an extension
of the standard theory of solid mechanics, a different way of seeing what happens internally to the material (a
non-localtheory), using Newton's second Law and making use of displacement integrals, to solve problems in
structures with discontinuities, such as cracks. In parallel, there is the Finite Elements Method (FEM) like
mencioned for J. P. Dias [2], which is already well established and widespread both in academia and industry,
which can also be used to investigate the behavior of solid elements that have discontinuities. Thus, the work in
question hás the intuition to compare two different programs, one written using the FEM and the other the
Peridynamic theory, to achieve results of the effectiveness and convenience of Peridynamics, since the FEM
already presents several references proving its results.