Journal of Computational Applied Mechanics

A comparative study of crack detection in nanobeams using molecular dynamics simulation, analytical formulations, and finite element method

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Tehran, Iran

2 School of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The study of material behavior in the presence of defects is one of the studies that can help us recognize and predict material behavior. Studying the behavior of materials in nanoscale illuminates a broad view of the behavior of materials. A variety of studies are available for such a study: numerical, experimental, and quasi-experimental methods. Molecular dynamics is one of the methods that can be used to study the behavior of materials. The vibrational behavior of structures has been the focus of many researchers to analyze and investigate mortar materials' properties. The study of vibrational behavior at the nanoscale can give us a broad view of materials' properties. Therefore, in this study, we study nanowires' vibrational behavior in the presence of edge cracks using molecular dynamics. The influence of crack position and depth on the natural frequencies and shape of iron nanobeam modes with BCC crystal structure have been investigated. Clamped-Clamped boundary conditions with different cracks position and depth have been applied by simulating molecular dynamics. Also, the data obtained from molecular dynamics simulations have been compared with the finite element method and different crack models in one dimensional beams . In order to extract the shape of natural modes and frequencies by molecular dynamics method, FFT applied on the  displacement history of nanobeam atoms after excitation of an amplitude in the center of nanobeam in x and y directions have been used. The crack models studied in this study were linear and rotational crack models on beams with Timoshenko theory. Molecular dynamics simulation data compared to other methods have shown a decrease in the value of natural frequencies in the presence of cracks. Also, finite element data and molecular dynamics are well matched. However, the molecular dynamics method has shown a more significant reduction in natural frequency values   than finite element methods and various crack models with Timoshenko theory. We have also found that in molecular dynamics bribery, the initial excitation type of nanobeams is very useful in extracting nanobeam modes' shape.

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Journal of Computational Applied Mechanics
Volume 52, Issue 3
September 2021
Pages 408-422
  • Receive Date: 25 April 2021
  • Revise Date: 28 June 2021
  • Accept Date: 29 June 2021