Issue |
EPL
Volume 96, Number 2, October 2011
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Article Number | 24002 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/96/24002 | |
Published online | 06 October 2011 |
Modelling fracture process in ceramic materials using the Material Point Method
Instituto de Tecnología Cerámica-Asociación de Investigación de las Industrias Cerámicas (ITC-AICE) Campus Riu Sec, 12006, Castellón, Spain, EU
a
francisco.gilabert@itc.uji.es
Received:
1
July
2011
Accepted:
5
September
2011
The Material Point Method (MPM) is a mathematical procedure based on the particle-in-cell technique, which combines the advantages of the Finite Element Method and the particle dynamics simulations. As all the material properties are transported by the points, a static structured mesh is used as a background scratch-pad for computations. This feature depicts MPM as a true meshless method, where the mesh entanglements (dependency or re-meshing) are avoided. Recently, MPM has been successfully applied to study the arbitrary crack propagation in solids. In this work, we focus our interest on a particular two-dimensional case in which a single crack initiates and propagates in a hypothetic multiphase system consisting of various quartz particles embedded in a glassy phase.
PACS: 46.15.-x – Computational methods in continuum mechanics / 46.50.+a – Fracture mechanics, fatigue and cracks
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