Bundesanstalt für Wasserbau

Extension of the particle finite element method towards quadrilateral-dominated meshes for large-deformation geotechnical problems

Particle Finite Element Method (PFEM) simulations frequently suffer from volumetric locking and remeshing-related inaccuracies when conventional first-order triangular finite elements are employed. In this contribution, a variant of the PFEM relying on quadrilateral-dominated mes...