Reducing the entry barrier of Peridynamic simulations

Kurzfassung

Despite the broad applicability of Peridynamics, a persistent challenge remains: how to encourage widespread adoption. In the engineering domain, classical continuum mechanics, predominantly facilitated by the finite element method, enjoys extensive utilization, supported by a plethora of com mercial and open-source software tools. Peridynamic simulation tools often find themselves in competition with these well-established counterparts. In research, custom codes tailored for specific applications are frequently created and applied, with little consideration for their future reuse or third-party utilization. The complexity is further exacerbated in High-Performance Computing applications, where a deep understanding of solvers, parallel computing, and Peridynamic itself is imperative for a successful software development. Given the constraints of a typical doctoral thesis, large-scale problems are often left unexplored, and research tends to be confined to simplistic geometries. This presentation aims to elucidate various pathways for the seamless integration and utilization of a Peridynamic framework. We will showcase examples that illustrate how the barriers for both users and developers can be significantly lowered. Performance tests of large scale problems and several functionalities, as well as their integration, will be presented. Based on this foundation, future coupling with Finite Element Method (FEM) will be undertaken. Therefore, the entire system is modular structured to allow further integration of numerical methods.