Peridynamics for Multiphysics Analysis

Although the peridynamic (PD) theory was originally introduced to recast the nonlocal form of the equation of motion, it is applicable to other field equations, including thermal diffusion, moisture diffusion, electric potential distribution, vacancy diffusion, and neutronic diffusion in either an uncoupled or a coupled manner. This chapter presents a peridynamic framework to solve multiphysics problems by considering different field equations coupled among themselves or coupled with the deformation field.