Outputs (5)

Development of low cost 3D soil surface scanning for physical modelling (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Robinson, S., Brown, M. J., Brennan, A. J., Cortis, M., Augarde, C. E., & Coombs, W. M. (2016, December). Development of low cost 3D soil surface scanning for physical modelling. Presented at 3rd European Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics (Eurofuge 2016),, Nantes, France

Improving seabed cable plough performance for offshore renewable energy (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Robinson, S., Brown, M., Brennan, A., Cortis, M., Augarde, C., & Coombs, W. (2016, October). Improving seabed cable plough performance for offshore renewable energy. Presented at 2nd International Conference on Renewable Energies Offshore, Lisbon, Spain

Seabed ploughing plays an important part in providing protection to subsea cables that connect offshore renewables, and the process represents a significant portion of the overall installation cost. Current models for predicting the required tow forc... Read More about Improving seabed cable plough performance for offshore renewable energy.

Implicit essential boundaries in the Material Point Method (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cortis, M., Coombs, W., & Augarde, C. (2023, March). Implicit essential boundaries in the Material Point Method. Presented at 24th UK Conference of the Association for Computational Mechanics in Engineering., Cardiff, UK

The Material Point Method (MPM) is a numerical boundary value problem (BVP) solver developed from particle- in-cell (PIC) methods that discretises the continuum into a set of material points. Information at these material points is mapped to a backgr... Read More about Implicit essential boundaries in the Material Point Method.

Energy dissipation in granular material under 1D compression (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mukwiri, R., Ghaffari Motlagh, Y., Coombs, W., & Augarde, C. (2023, March). Energy dissipation in granular material under 1D compression. Presented at ACME - UK 2016 24th Conference of the Association for Computational Mechanics in Engineering., Cardiff, UK

In recent years it has been shown that the micro-mechanics of one-dimensional normal compression of sands can be modelled in three-dimensions within the discrete element method [7]. The compression is displacement driven such that the top platen of t... Read More about Energy dissipation in granular material under 1D compression.

Numerical simulation of fracking in shale rocks: current state and future approaches (2016)
Journal Article
Hattori, G., Trevelyan, J., Augarde, C., Coombs, W., & Aplin, A. (2017). Numerical simulation of fracking in shale rocks: current state and future approaches. Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 24(2), 281-317. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11831-016-9169-0

Extracting gas from shale rocks is one of the current engineering challenges but offers the prospect of cheap gas. Part of the development of an effective engineering solution for shale gas extraction in the future will be the availability of reliabl... Read More about Numerical simulation of fracking in shale rocks: current state and future approaches.