Bond-based peridynamics does not converge to hyperelasticity as the horizon goes to zero

Abstract

Bond-based peridynamics is a nonlocal continuum model in Solid Mechanics in which the energy of a deformation is calculated through a double integral involving pairs of points in the reference and deformed configurations. It is known how to calculate the {\Gamma}-limit of this model when the horizon (maximum interaction distance between the particles) tends to zero, and the limit turns out to be a (local) vector variational problem defined in a Sobolev space, of the type appearing in (classical) hyperelasticity. In this paper, we impose frame-indifference and isotropy in the model and find that very few hyperelastic functionals are {\Gamma}-limits of the bond-based peridynamics model. In particular, Mooney-Rivlin materials are not recoverable through this limit procedure.