Books
2022
The Material Point Method
In this book written in collaboration with Vinh Phu Nguyen and Stéphane Bordas, we present the up to date and detailed Theory, Implementations and Applications of the Material Point Method.
Review articles
2020
Material point method after 25 years:theory, implementation and applications
This is a review on the Material Point Method published in Advances in Applied mechanics nearly exactly 25 years after the method was pioneered by Sulsky in 1994.
Peer reviewed journal articles
2022
Work hardening and the scratch resistance of Ni–Co alloys using a rapid prototyping approach
In this paper published in Wear and written as part of my work within the MineAlloy centre we look at the effect of work hardening on the scratch resistance of Ni-Co alloys.
Total Lagrangian Material Point Method simulation of the scratching of high purity coppers
In this paper published in International Journal of Solids and Structures and written as part of my work within the MineAlloy centre we look at the effect of work hardening on the scratch resistance of Ni-Co alloys.
Mesh objective simulations of large strain ductile fracture: A new nonlocal Johnson-Cook damage formulation for the Total Lagrangian Material Point Method
In this paper published in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, we derive and test a new nonlocal damage model adapted for Total Lagrangian MPM.
2021
Modelling contacts with a total Lagrangian material point method
In this paper published in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, we derive and test a new contact algorithm for our Total Lagrangian Material Point Method.
Fracture of thermo-elastic solids: Phase-field modeling and new results with an efficient monolithic solver
In this paper published in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, we develop an accurate and computationally efficient phase-field formulation for thermally induced fracture which is free from length-scale bias and applicable for both brittle as well as quasi-brittle materials.
2020
A Total-Lagrangian Material Point Method for solid mechanics problems involving large deformations
This paper published in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering presents our Total Lagrangian Material Point Method for simulating solids under large deformation.
Karamelo: an open source parallel C++ package for the material point method
This is the article that present our open source C++ code for the Material Point Method named Karamelo. It was published in Computational Particle Mechanics.
A generalized particle in cell method for explicit solid dynamics
This paper published in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering presents our Generalized Particle in Cell method (GPIC) which is an extention of the Material Point Method using meshed bodies.
Jive: An open source, research-oriented C++ library for solving partial differential equations
This paper published in Advances in Engineering Software we present the very popular open source toolkit Jive aimed at solving partial differential equations (PDEs).
2019
A new total-Lagrangian smooth particle hydrodynamics approximation for the simulation of damage and fracture of ductile materials
This paper published in International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering presents a new damage model to simulate the fracture of ductile materials with Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH).
2018
Atomistic insights into cluster strengthening in aluminum alloys
In this article published in Materialia we explore the origins of cluster strengthening in aluminium alloys using atomistic simulations.
2013
The superposition of strengthening contributions in engineering alloys
In this article published in Materials Science and Engineering A we assess how strengthening contributions in alloys such as aluminium are best superposed. We derive here a new addition law that takes into account the strength of the different contributions such as precipitates, forest dislocations, solute atoms...
Dislocation glide through non-randomly distributed point obstacles
In this article published in Philosophical Magazine we study the interaction between gliding dislocations and non-randomly distributed obstacles that could be forest dislocations, precipitates, clusters, or solid solutions.
Analysis of strengthening in AA6111 during the early stages of aging: Atom probe tomography and yield stress modelling
In this article published in Acta Materialia we analyse how strength in aluminium alloys 6111 emerges at the early stages of aging. This is a study that implies Atom Probe tomography and modelling (which I am responsible of).
A new rate-dependent unidirectional composite model – Application to panels subjected to underwater blast
In this article published in the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids we derive a new rate-dependent model for the failure of composite materials and apply it to the simulation of panels subjected to underwater blasts.
Three-dimensional numerical modeling of composite panels subjected to underwater blast
In this article published in the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids we simulate the deformation and failure of composite panels subjected to underwater blasts using the model derived in the previous paper.
2013
Design and identification of high performance steel alloys for structures subjected to underwater impulsive loading
In this paper published in International Journal of Solids and Structures we detail the design of different steel alloys and the performance identification of monolithic panels subjected to underwater impulsive loading