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B-spline based boundary conditions in the material point method (2018)
Journal Article
Bing, Y., Cortis, M., Charlton, T., Coombs, W., & Augarde, C. (2019). B-spline based boundary conditions in the material point method. Computers and Structures, 212, 257-274. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruc.2018.11.003

The material point method is an increasingly popular method for tackling solid mechanics problems involving large deformations. However, there are issues associated with applying boundary conditions in the method and, to date, no general approach for... Read More about B-spline based boundary conditions in the material point method.

Overcoming volumetric locking in material point methods (2018)
Journal Article
Coombs, W., Charlton, T., Cortis, M., & Augarde, C. (2018). Overcoming volumetric locking in material point methods. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 333, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2018.01.010

Material point methods suffer from volumetric locking when modelling near incompressible materials due to the combination of a low-order computational mesh and large numbers of material points per element. Large numbers of material points per element... Read More about Overcoming volumetric locking in material point methods.