Cracking in brittle materials under dynamic loading is widely encountered in engineering.
The discontinuous deformation analysis (DDA) is a numerical method initially proposed to …

Edge-to-edge contact is a fundamental contact type in blocky systems. In two-dimensional
discontinuous deformation analysis (2D DDA, and hereinafter DDA for short), an edge-to …

The high computational costs associated with the implicit formulation of discontinuous
deformation analysis (DDA) have been one of the major obstacles for its implementation to …

The numerical, discrete element, Discontinuous Deformation Analysis (DDA) method was
developed by Dr. Gen-hua Shi while he was working at the University of California …

Since its proposal in 1985, the Discontinuous Deformation Analysis (DDA) has developed
into a powerful tool for simulating the mechanical behaviour of rock masses and other …

A new computational framework for discontinuous deformation analysis (DDA) of ellipsoidal
particles is developed by taking full advantage of the geometric convexity of the ellipsoid. To …

Blocks of different sizes are formed in a typical rock mass and affect its stability. The size
difference in between the blocks consisting a rock mass is also important from the rock …

Orienting the circular and rigid particle medium, the variational inequality‐based
discontinuous deformation analysis (DDA) is established. In the proposed DDA, the global …

Dynamic simulation of revolved solids plays an important role in many fields. Aiming at the
lacks of solutions in some key aspects, this study establishes governing equation of motion …

Abstract The GSCP (Gauss–Seidel based projection‐contraction) algorithm has been well
established in solving elastoplastic mixed complementarity problems (MiCPs) or other …