This is a review of well established and recently introduced contact-force models that are
used in the dynamical analysis of multibody systems. In particular, two contact groups have …

This work reviews the main techniques to model dynamical systems with contact-impact
events. Regularized and non-smooth formulations are considered, wherein the fundamental …

The restitution coefficient serves as a critical parameter to evaluate the energy loss during
the contact/impact process. Its in–depth researches are beneficial to accurately describing …

This paper presents a computational study on the interactive evolution of particle shape and
particle breakage for granular material under confined compression. A novel multiscale …

We outline a continuum approach for treating discrete granular flows that holds across
multiple scales: from experiments that focus on centimeter-size control volumes, to tests that …

This contribution outlines a multiphase flow solution method developed in conjunction with
the incompressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) discretization. We present (a) a …

Constructing an efficient high-order nonsmooth time-step** integration scheme for rigid–
flexible multibody systems with frictional contacts and impacts is a challenging task. This …

This work discusses an efficient formulation of a geometrically exact three-dimensional
beam which can be used in dynamical simulations involving large displacements, collisions …

This paper introduces a procedure in the field of computational contact mechanics to
analyze contact dynamics of beams undergoing large overall motion with large deformations …

Abstract A Smoothed Particles Hydrodynamics (SPH) method for fluid dynamics is coupled
with a rigid and deformable body dynamics solution to yield a framework for solving fluid …