Computational studies on fragmentation of brittle materials

We study dynamic fragmentation of metallic structures using the cracking particles method with obscuration zone. The cracking particles method is an efficient meshfree method for modeling dynamic fracture. Fracture is modeled by a set of crack segments. The cracking particles method does not require...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ghosh, Arindam, Kumar, V.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Sage Publications 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/20226