We are hosting the 19th International Conference on New Trends in Fatigue and Fracture in Tucson, Arizona during October 8-10, 2019. The International Conference on New Trends in Fatigue and Fracture (NT2F19) aims to be a forum for the discussion of relevant scientific and technical developments in understanding the behavior of materials at all scales.  For more information, please visit the conference website through the link below

http://nt2f19.usacm.org

The aim is to serve as the focal journal to disseminate original research and review articles addressing theoretical development of peridynamics and its modeling and simulation applications.

This book introduces the peridynamic (PD) differential operator, which enables the nonlocal form of local differentiation.  PD is a bridge between differentiation and integration.  It provides the computational solution of complex field equations and evaluation of derivatives of smooth or scattered data in the presence of discontinuities.  PD also serves as a natural filter to smooth noisy data and to recover missing data. 

The peridynamic theory provides the capability for improved modeling of progressive failure in materials and structures, paving the way to address multi-physics and multi-scale problems. Because it is based on concepts not commonly used in the past, the purpose of this book is to explain the peridynamic theory in a single framework. It presents not only the theoretical basis but also its numerical implementation.