Simplicity of mesh generation and robustness against mesh entanglement during large deformations are key attractive features of particle based methods. These features can be exploited in number of engineering problems where traditional techniques suffer due to aforementioned limitations. Numerical modelling of particulate composites is one of such ideal engineering applications where particle based methods can be effectively used due to their simplicity and robustness. Complicated geometrical configurations of particulate composites obtained from techniques such as scanning electron microscopy (SEM) can be easily converted to particle based mesh without loosing much information. This enables more accurate analysis of the chosen composite materials. Therefore, a smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH) based numerical technique is developed here to investigate the mechanical properties and evolution of debonding process in particulate composites. To perform the numerical study, a Lagrangian corrected SPH (CSPH) method is presented together with an appropriate numerical model for treating material interface discontinuity within the particulate composites. The material interface discontinuity is enforced using an innovative method which combines penalty formulation with a bilinear interface cohesive model for SPH method. The proposed SPH methodology is used in a number of numerical examples involving composite materials and related interface problems. The effect of penalty value on the interface model and of the smoothing length of the SPH method are also analysed during these simulations. The results illustrate the effectiveness, robustness and potential of the developed methodology. It is concluded that the proposed numerical techniques can be easily and effectively applied to simulate multi-phase composites with various interface conditions and, can provide useful information regarding the inherent mechanism of damage evolution and fracture of particulate or fibre reinforced composites. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Local transformation, or topological reconnection, is one of the effective procedures for mesh improvement method, especially for three-dimensional tetrahedral mesh. The most frequently used local transformations for tetrahedral mesh are so-called elementary flips, such as 2-3 flip, 3-2 flip. 2-2 flip, and 4-4 flip. Owing to the reason that these basic transformations simply make a selection from several possible configurations within a relatively small region, the improvement of mesh quality is confined. In order to further improve the quality of mesh, the authors recently suggested a new local transformation operation, small polyhedron reconnection (SPR) operation, which seeks for the optimal tetrahedralization of a polyhedron with a certain number of nodes and faces (typically composed of 20-40 tetrahedral elements).This paper is an implementation of the suggested method. The whole process to improve the mesh quality by SPR operation is presented; in addition, some strategies, similar to those used in advancing front technique, are introduced to speed up the operation. The numerical experiment shows that SPR operation is quite effective in mesh improvement and more suitable than elementary flips when combined with smoothing approach. The operation can be applied to practical problems, gaining high mesh quality with acceptable cost for computational time. Copyright (C) 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

本文采用Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics(SPH)方法研究复合材料的等效力学性能和界面脱胶演化过程。应用修正的拉格朗日格式,采用罚数方法表征界面的位移不连续性和本质边界条件,模拟了含圆形和椭圆形夹杂的二维复合材料在平面应变条件下的脱胶破坏过程.

<正>基于粒子的无网格法的最有吸引力的特点是简单的格点生成以及在大变形问题中方法实施的鲁棒性。这些特点在大量工程问题中可以得到体现而传统方法在这些问题中的应用受到一定的限制,例如颗粒或纤维增强的复合材料界面破坏数值模拟。从扫描电镜得到的复杂几何构形可以很容易地转换成无网格法的粒子分布,从而

Simplicity of mesh generation and robustness against mesh entanglement during large deformations are key attractive features of particle based methods. These features can be exploited in number of engineering problems where traditional techniques suffer due to aforementioned limitations. Numerical modelling of particulate composites is one of such ideal engineering applications where particle based methods can be effectively used due to their simplicity and robustness. Complicated geometrical configurations of particulate composites obtained from techniques such as scanning electron microscopy (SEM) can be easily converted to particle based mesh without loosing much information. This enables more accurate analysis of the chosen composite materials. Therefore, a smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH) based numerical technique is developed here to investigate the mechanical properties and evolution of debonding process in particulate composites. To perform the numerical study, a Lagrangian corrected SPH (CSPH) method is presented together with an appropriate numerical model for treating material interface discontinuity within the particulate composites. The material interface discontinuity is enforced using an innovative method which combines penalty formulation with a bilinear interface cohesive model for SPH method. The proposed SPH methodology is used in a number of numerical examples involving composite materials and related interface problems. The effect of penalty value on the interface model and of the smoothing length of the SPH method are also analysed during these simulations. The results illustrate the effectiveness, robustness and potential of the developed methodology. It is concluded that the proposed numerical techniques can be easily and effectively applied to simulate multi-phase composites with various interface conditions and, can provide useful information regarding the inherent mechanism of damage evolution and fracture of particulate or fibre reinforced composites. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Local transformation, or topological reconnection, is one of the effective procedures for mesh improvement method, especially for three-dimensional tetrahedral mesh. The most frequently used local transformations for tetrahedral mesh are so-called elementary flips, such as 2-3 flip, 3-2 flip. 2-2 flip, and 4-4 flip. Owing to the reason that these basic transformations simply make a selection from several possible configurations within a relatively small region, the improvement of mesh quality is confined. In order to further improve the quality of mesh, the authors recently suggested a new local transformation operation, small polyhedron reconnection (SPR) operation, which seeks for the optimal tetrahedralization of a polyhedron with a certain number of nodes and faces (typically composed of 20-40 tetrahedral elements).This paper is an implementation of the suggested method. The whole process to improve the mesh quality by SPR operation is presented; in addition, some strategies, similar to those used in advancing front technique, are introduced to speed up the operation. The numerical experiment shows that SPR operation is quite effective in mesh improvement and more suitable than elementary flips when combined with smoothing approach. The operation can be applied to practical problems, gaining high mesh quality with acceptable cost for computational time. Copyright (C) 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.