A state-of-the-art review of experimental and computational studies of granular materials: properties, advances, challenges, and future directions

P Tahmasebi - Progress in Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Modeling of heterogeneous materials and media is a problem of fundamental importance to
a wide class of phenomena and systems, ranging from condensed matter physics, soft …

Material point method after 25 years: theory, implementation, and applications

A De Vaucorbeil, VP Nguyen, S Sinaie… - Advances in applied …, 2020 - Elsevier
It has been 25 years since Sulsky and her coworkers developed the first version of the
material point method (MPM): a quasi particle method to solve continuum mechanics …

Dark, beyond deep: A paradigm shift to cognitive ai with humanlike common sense

Y Zhu, T Gao, L Fan, S Huang, M Edmonds, H Liu… - Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Recent progress in deep learning is essentially based on a “big data for small tasks”
paradigm, under which massive amounts of data are used to train a classifier for a single …

Disect: A differentiable simulation engine for autonomous robotic cutting

E Heiden, M Macklin, Y Narang, D Fox, A Garg… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Robotic cutting of soft materials is critical for applications such as food processing,
household automation, and surgical manipulation. As in other areas of robotics, simulators …

Breaking bad: A dataset for geometric fracture and reassembly

S Sellán, YC Chen, Z Wu, A Garg… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Abstract We introduce Breaking Bad, a large-scale dataset of fractured objects. Our dataset
consists of over one million fractured objects simulated from ten thousand base models. The …

A massively parallel and scalable multi-GPU material point method

X Wang, Y Qiu, SR Slattery, Y Fang, M Li… - ACM Transactions on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Harnessing the power of modern multi-GPU architectures, we present a massively parallel
simulation system based on the Material Point Method (MPM) for simulating physical …

Phase-field implicit material point method with the convected particle domain interpolation for brittle–ductile failure transition in geomaterials involving finite …

Z Hu, H Zhang, Y Zheng, H Ye - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics …, 2022 - Elsevier
A phase-field implicit material point method with the convected particle domain interpolation
(PF-ICPDI) is proposed to model the brittle–ductile failure transition in pressure-sensitive …

Simplicits: Mesh-free, geometry-agnostic elastic simulation

V Modi, N Sharp, O Perel, S Sueda… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The proliferation of 3D representations, from explicit meshes to implicit neural fields and
more, motivates the need for simulators agnostic to representation. We present a data …

Roboninja: Learning an adaptive cutting policy for multi-material objects

Z Xu, Z **an, X Lin, C Chi, Z Huang, C Gan… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We introduce RoboNinja, a learning-based cutting system for multi-material objects (ie, soft
objects with rigid cores such as avocados or mangos). In contrast to prior works using open …

Fantastic breaks: A dataset of paired 3d scans of real-world broken objects and their complete counterparts

N Lamb, C Palmer, B Molloy… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Automated shape repair approaches currently lack access to datasets that describe real-
world damaged geometry. We present Fantastic Breaks (and Where to Find Them …