The modelling of soil-tool interaction using the material point method

Michael Cortis; William M. Coombs; Charles E. Augarde; Scott Robinson; Michael Brown; Andrew Brennan

The modelling of soil-tool interaction using the material point method

Michael Cortis (Lead / Corresponding author)
, William M. Coombs
, Charles E. Augarde
, Scott Robinson
, Michael Brown
, Andrew Brennan

Civil Engineering

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Abstract

The material point method (MPM) is a numerical tool able to model very large deformations in solid mechanics such as geotechnical problems. To date, soil-tool interaction modelling in theMPMis somewhat difficult, especially when the tool position is not stationary. Usually, the tool’s boundaries do not coincide with the MPM grid and therefore boundary conditions cannot be imposed directly on the grid nodes. An implicit approach based on a penalty type method to impose essential boundary conditions in the MPM has been developed and used in the paper to demonstrate how to model frictionless soil-tool interaction mechanism [3]. This approach assumes that the tool is a rigid body as the deformation of the tool boundaries are insignificant. The same approach can also be used to model the interaction between structures and soil such as foundations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 25th UKACM Conference on Computational Mechanics
Place of Publication	United Kingdom
Publisher	University of Birmingham
Pages	211-214
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - Apr 2017
Event	25th UKACM Conference on Computational Mechanics - University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom Duration: 11 Apr 2017 → 13 Apr 2017 http://ukacm2017.ukacm.org/

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Conference	25th UKACM Conference on Computational Mechanics
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Birmingham
Period	11/04/17 → 13/04/17
Internet address	http://ukacm2017.ukacm.org/

Keywords

material point method
essential boundary conditions
soil-tool modelling
offshore geotechnics

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A dynamic implicit 3D material point-to-rigid body contact approach for large deformation analysis
Bird, R. E., Pretti, G., Coombs, W. M. (Lead / Corresponding author), Augarde, C., Brown, M., Sharif, Y., Carter, G., Macdonald, C. & Johnson, K., 24 Jul 2025, In: International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. 126, 14, 20 p., e70080.
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An implicit material point-to-rigid body contact approach for large deformation soil-structure interaction
Bird, R. E., Pretti, G., Coombs, W. M., Augarde, C., Sharif, Y., Brown, M., Carter, G., Macdonald, C. & Johnson, K., Oct 2024, In: Computers and Geotechnics. 174, 16 p., 106646.
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Cone Penetration Tests (CPTs) in layered soils: a Material Point approach
Bird, R., Coombs, W. M., Augarde, C., Brown, M., Sharif, Y., Carter, G., Johnson, K. & Macdonald, C., 2023. 6 p.
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Cortis, M, Coombs, WM, Augarde, CE, Robinson, S , Brown, M & Brennan, A 2017, The modelling of soil-tool interaction using the material point method. in Proceedings of the 25th UKACM Conference on Computational Mechanics. University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, pp. 211-214, 25th UKACM Conference on Computational Mechanics, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 11/04/17. <http://ukacm2017.ukacm.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Proceedings-UKACM2017-compressed.pdf>

The modelling of soil-tool interaction using the material point method. / Cortis, Michael (Lead / Corresponding author); Coombs, William M.; Augarde, Charles E. et al.
Proceedings of the 25th UKACM Conference on Computational Mechanics. United Kingdom: University of Birmingham, 2017. p. 211-214.

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The modelling of soil-tool interaction using the material point method

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A dynamic implicit 3D material point-to-rigid body contact approach for large deformation analysis

An implicit material point-to-rigid body contact approach for large deformation soil-structure interaction

Cone Penetration Tests (CPTs) in layered soils: a Material Point approach

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The performance of pipeline ploughs

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