MPM Overview

Material Point Method (MPM) is a particle based method that represents the material as a collection of material points, and their deformations are determined by Newton’s laws of motion. The MPM is a hybrid Eulerian-Lagrangian approach, which uses moving material points and computational nodes on a background mesh.

Learn How to Use MPM

User Guide

MPM Use Cases

Material Point Method for Landslide Modeling Krishna Kumar - University of Texas at Austin

MPM Official Resources

MPM Github

MPM Website

MPM Documentation

How to Cite MPM & DesignSafe

Please include both of these citations if you use MPM on DesignSafe.

MPM:

Kumar, K., Salmond, J., Kularathna, S., Wilkes, C., Tjung, E., Biscontin, G., & Soga, K. (2019). Scalable and modular material point method for large scale simulations. 2nd International Conference on the Material Point Method. Cambridge, UK. https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.13380

DesignSafe:

Rathje, E., Dawson, C. Padgett, J.E., Pinelli, J.-P., Stanzione, D., Adair, A., Arduino, P., Brandenberg, S.J., Cockerill, T., Dey, C., Esteva, M., Haan, Jr., F.L., Hanlon, M., Kareem, A., Lowes, L., Mock, S., and Mosqueda, G. 2017. “DesignSafe: A New Cyberinfrastructure for Natural Hazards Engineering,” ASCE Natural Hazards Review, doi:10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000246.

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