The Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) methods will be developed for solving three dimensional nonlinear dynamic problems, with large plastic deformations, to simulate metallic and brittle materials under high-speed impact loads. The general MLPG approach will be applied to the system of… More

The objective of the proposed research and development is to develop integrated computational algorithms, and attendant software, to treat fracture and fragmentation of brittle as well as ductile materials, using the Meshless Local Petrov Galerkin nmethod, which is a new pardigm in computational… More

To develop a general MLPG approach for bridging the length & time scales and computational frameworks to address multi-scale / multi-physics applications, by integrating multi-scale algorithms, for multifunctional material systems.. The emphasis will be on the broad goal for simulating… More