Talk at the Prague workshop honoring Z.P. Bazant's 60th birthday

Finite element analysis of fragmentation with continuous remeshing

  1. Outline
  2. Motivation: Large-strain deformation
  3. Motivation: Fracture
  4. Motivation: Complex models
  5. Methodology
  6. Topology/geometry
  7. BESS
  8. Sample topology: Mechanical part
  9. Sample topology: Skull
  10. VDT 1
  11. VDT 2
  12. VDT 3
  13. Sample mesh: Brace
  14. Sample mesh: Mandible
  15. Sample mesh: Mechanical part
  16. Sample mesh: Two closely-spaced cubes
  17. Conclusions