MPM

Lauren Talbot, a PhD Candidate in the Soga Research Group, was invited as a guest lecturer for the USACE Prospect Course 247 on seismic analysis of embankment dams. Her presentation was titled “Applying the Material Point Method [MPM] to Model the Runout Phase of a Seismic Analysis”. Lauren discussed MPM and the potential applications in current and future state of practice. To demonstrate this, she… Read More »Guest Lecture for USACE Course on Seismic Analysis of Embankment Dams

Researchers in our group recently published an article in the Journal of Computational Physics on material point method (MPM). The work is led by our affiliated researcher, Nanda Chandra, who was also a recent graduate from the group. The article entitled “Mixed material point method formulation, stabilization, and validation for a unified analysis of free-surface and seepage flow” proposed an extension work of the previous… Read More »New MPM paper in the Journal of Computational Physics

Nanda, a former PhD student from our group, now a postdoc at Berkeley ME, attended the 16th World Congress in Computational Mechanics held on July 21-26, 2024, in Vancouver, Canada. He presented the work he did during his PhD in collaboration with Prof. Ryota Hashimoto (Kyoto University) and Prof. Ken Kamrin (Berkeley/MIT). His presentation was entitled “Development of mixed material point method for analysis of… Read More »Nanda’s Presentation at 16th WCCM

The Soga Research Group and collaborators have published a new paper in the journal Computers and Geotechnics: “Modeling large-deformation features of the Lower San Fernando Dam failure with the Material Point Method”, authored by Lauren Talbot, Joel Given, former SRG member Dr. Ezra Tjung, Dr. Yong Liang of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Dr. Khaled Chowdhury of USACE, Prof. Raymond Seed, and Prof. Kenichi Soga. The paper focuses on… Read More »Paper: Modeling large-deformation features of the Lower San Fernando Dam failure with the Material Point Method