Static solution of crack propagation problems in Peridynamics

The static solution of crack propagation problems can be an efficient way to find both the failure load of a structure and the shape of the crack pattern. The paper introduces two new implicit static solution procedures to study crack propagation problems by adopting a Peridynamic-based numerical tool, and compares them with the Sequentially Linear Analysis. We discretize the structures in space by adopting a coupled FEM–PD approach, which...