The focus of the colloquium includes the following topics:

  • - Advances in peridynamic constitutive modeling
  • - Pair-potentials and multi-body potentials formulations
  • - Analytical solutions of peridynamic governing equations
  • - Brittle and ductile fracture, material degradation
  • - Local to nonlocal coupling
  • - Heat transfer and diffusion problems
  • - Multiphysics/coupled problems
  • - Modeling of soft tissues, porous media and composites
  • - Impact and fragmentation problems, hypervelocity
  • - Machine learning for nonlocal models, connections to atomistic modeling
  • - Size-dependent behaviors and multiscale analysis
  • - Peridynamic models for micropolar elasticity
  • - Wave propagation and dispersion properties
  • - Discretization methods, computer codes, and fast algorithms
  • - Relations to other modeling approaches based on Continuum Mechanics (Phase field, SPH etc.)

This EUROMECH Colloquium reaches both industrial and academic researchers in the field.