Influence of surface roughness and particle characteristics on soil–structure interactions: A state-of-the-art review

R Wang, DEL Ong, MI Peerun, DS Jeng - Geosciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
The study of soil–structure interface behavior contributes to the fundamental understanding
of engineering performance and foundation design optimization. Previous research studies …

A strategic review on enhanced DEM simulation and advanced 3-D particle printing techniques to improve pipe-jacking force prediction

MI Peerun, DEL Ong, C Desha - Tunnelling and Underground Space …, 2022 - Elsevier
Urbanization has increased the demand of tunnels for various infrastructure. Micro-
tunnelling with pipe-jacking method has been widely adopted for the construction of …

Synthesizing controlled microstructures of porous media using generative adversarial networks and reinforcement learning

PCH Nguyen, NN Vlassis, B Bahmani, WC Sun… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
For material modeling and discovery, synthetic microstructures play a critical role as digital
twins. They provide stochastic samples upon which direct numerical simulations can be …

Mechanical MNIST: A benchmark dataset for mechanical metamodels

E Lejeune - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2020 - Elsevier
Metamodels, or models of models, map defined model inputs to defined model outputs.
Typically, metamodels are constructed by generating a dataset through sampling a direct …

An updated Lagrangian LBM–DEM–FEM coupling model for dual-permeability fissured porous media with embedded discontinuities

K Wang, WC Sun - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Many engineering applications and geological processes involve embedded discontinuities
in porous media across multiple length scales (eg rock joints, grain boundaries, deformation …

Study on the mechanical behavior of sands using 3D discrete element method with realistic particle models

WJ Xu, GY Liu, H Yang - Acta Geotechnica, 2020 - Springer
Presented is a study on the geometrical characteristics of sand particles and the mechanical
behavior of sand material under external loading. Based on computed tomography …

Permeability of uniformly graded 3D printed granular media

D Wei, Z Wang, JM Pereira… - Geophysical Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The present work explores water permeability of uniformly graded irregular grains using 3D
printing with controlled shapes and fractal morphological features at low Reynold's number …

DP-MPM: Domain partitioning material point method for evolving multi-body thermal–mechanical contacts during dynamic fracture and fragmentation

M **ao, C Liu, WC Sun - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2021 - Elsevier
We propose a material point method (MPM) to model the evolving multi-body contacts due to
crack growth and fragmentation of thermo-elastic bodies. By representing particle interface …

ILS-MPM: An implicit level-set-based material point method for frictional particulate contact mechanics of deformable particles

C Liu, WC Sun - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Finite element simulations of frictional multi-body contact problems via conformal meshes
can be challenging and computationally demanding. To render geometrical features …

A non-cooperative meta-modeling game for automated third-party calibrating, validating and falsifying constitutive laws with parallelized adversarial attacks

K Wang, WC Sun, Q Du - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The evaluation of constitutive models, especially for high-risk and high-regret engineering
applications, requires efficient and rigorous third-party calibration, validation and …