@article {32691,
	title = {An efficient SPH methodology for modelling mechanical characteristics of particulate composites},
	journal = {Defence TechnologyDefence Technology},
	volume = {17},
	number = {1},
	year = {2021},
	note = {Ps9apTimes Cited:1Cited References Count:53},
	month = {Feb},
	pages = {135-146},
	chapter = {135},
	abstract = {Particulate composites are one of the widely used materials in producing numerous state-of-the-art components in biomedical, automobile, aerospace including defence technology. Variety of modelling techniques have been adopted in the past to model mechanical behaviour of particulate composites. Due to their favourable properties, particle-based methods provide a convenient platform to model failure or fracture of these composites. Smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is one of such methods which demonstrate excellent potential for modelling failure or fracture of particulate composites in a Lagrangian setting. One of the major challenges in using SPH method for modelling composite materials depends on accurate and efficient way to treat interface and boundary conditions. In this paper, a master-slave method based multi-freedom constraints is proposed to impose essential boundary conditions and interfacial displacement constraints in modelling mechanical behaviour of composite materials using SPH method. The proposed methodology enforces the above constraints more accurately and requires only smaller condition number for system stiffness matrix than the procedures based on typical penalty function approach. A minimum cut-off value-based error criteria is employed to improve the computational efficiency of the proposed methodology. In addition, the proposed method is further enhanced by adopting a modified numerical interpolation scheme along the boundary to increase the accuracy and computational efficiency. The numerical examples demonstrate that the proposed master-slave approach yields better accuracy in enforcing displacement constraints and requires approximately the same computational time as that of penalty method. (C) 2020 China Ordnance Society. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi Communications Co.},
	keywords = {collocation method, essential boundary condition, essential boundary-conditions, finite-element, galerkin mlpg approach, implementation, master-slave method, meshless analysis, multi-point constraints, particulate composites, shells, sph},
	isbn = {22149147},
	author = {Zheng, Z. J. and Kulasegaram, S. and Chen, P. and Chen, Y. Q.}
}
