FAST FOURIER TRANSFORM METHOD FOR PERIDYNAMIC BAR OF PERIODIC STRUCTURE

Abstract

The basic feature of the peridynamics [introduced by Silling (2000)] considered is a continuum description of material behavior as the integrated nonlocal force interactions between infinitesimal material points. A heterogeneous bar of the periodic structure of constituents with peridynamic mechanical properties is analyzed. One introduces the volumetric periodic boundary conditions (PBCs) at the interaction boundary of a representative unit cell (UC), whose local limit implies the known locally elastic PBCs. This permits us to generalize the classical computational homogenization approach to its counterpart in peridynamic micromechanics (PM). Alternative to the finite element methods (FEM) for solving computational homogenization problems are the fast Fourier transforms (FFTs) methods developed in local micromechanics (LM). The Lippmann-Schwinger (L-S) equation-based approach of the FFT method in the LM is generalized to the PM counterpart. Instead of one convolution kernel in the L-S equation, we use three convolution kernels corresponding to the properties of the matrix, inclusions, and interaction interface. The Eshelby tensor in LM depending on the inclusion shape is replaced by PM counterparts depending on the inclusion size and interaction interface (although the Eshelby concept of homogeneous eigenfields does no work in PM). The mentioned tensors are estimated one time (as in LM) in a frequency domain (also by the FFT method). Numerical examples for 1-D peridynamic inhomogeneous bar are considered. Computational complexities O (N <i>log</i><sub>2</sub> N) of the FFT methods are the same in both LM and PM.