Towards a macroscopically consistent discrete method for granular materials: Delaunay strain-based formulation

Autor: Göran Frenning
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Computational Particle Mechanics. 9:1105-1118
ISSN: 2196-4386
2196-4378
DOI: 10.1007/s40571-021-00452-8
Popis: We demonstrate that the Delaunay-based strain definition proposed by Bagi (Mech Mater 22:165–177, 1996) for granular media can be straightforwardly translated into a particle-based numerical method for continua. This method has a number of attractive features, including linear completeness and satisfaction of the patch test, exact conservation of linear and angular momenta in the absence of external forces and torques, and anti-symmetry of the gradient vectors for any two points not both on the boundary of the computational domain. The formulation in effect relies on nodal (particle) interpolation of the deformation gradient and is therefore inherently unstable. Drawing on the analogy with granular media, a pairwise interaction between particles is included to alleviate this issue. The underlying idea is to define a local, non-affine deformation of each bond or contact, and to introduce pairwise forces via a stored-energy functional expressed in terms of the corresponding local displacements. In this manner, a generalisation of the Ganzenmüller (Comput Methods Appl Mech Eng 286:87–106, 2015) hourglass stabilisation procedure to non-central forces is obtained. The performance of the method is demonstrated in a range of problems. This work can be considered a first step towards the development of a macroscopically consistent discrete method for granular materials.
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