How to prescribe traction on boundary surface is still an open question in peridynamics. This problem is investigated in this paper. Through introducing the induced body force defined by boundary traction, the Silling’s peridynamic motion equation is extended to a new formulation called the traction-associated peridynamic motion equation, which is verified to be compatible with the conservation laws of linear momentum and angular momentum. The energy conservation equation derived from the traction-associated peridynamic motion equation has the same form as that in the original peridynamics advanced by Silling. Therefore, the constitutive models of the original peridynamics can be directly applied to the traction-associated peridynamic motion equation. Some benchmark examples in the plane stress problems are calculated. The numerical solutions agree well with the classical elasticity solutions, and the volume correction and the surface correction are no longer needed in the numerical algorithm. These results show that the traction-associated peridynamic motion equation not only retains all advantages of the original peridynamics, but also can conveniently deal with the complex traction boundary conditions.
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