J. Ma1, H. Lu1, B. Wang1, S. Roy1, R. Hornung2, A. Wissink2, R. Komanduri1,3
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.8, No.2, pp. 135-152, 2005, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2005.008.135
Abstract In the simulation of a wide range of mechanics problems including impact/contact/penetration and fracture, the material point method (MPM), Sulsky, Zhou and Shreyer (1995), demonstrated its computational capabilities. To resolve alternating stress sign and instability problems associated with conventional MPM, Bardenhagen and Kober (2004) introduced recently the generalized interpolation material point (GIMP) method and implemented for one-dimensional simulations. In this paper we have extended GIMP to 2D and applied to simulate simple tension and indentation problems. For simulations spanning multiple length scales, based on the continuum mechanics approach, we present a parallel GIMP computational method… More >