...Y.T. Feng; Ba Danh Le; Georg Koval; Cyrille Chazallon Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use the discrete element method (DEM) to model the fracture behaviour of brittle materials in 2D. Design/methodology/approach The material consists of a set of particles in contact with a close‐packed...

... was obtained. Material fragmentation was successfully simulated in ice‐structure interaction analysis. Originality/value The procedure for modelling discrete crack propagation and fragmentation of initially intact quasi‐brittle materials based on local remeshing has not been presented previously...

...Chongbin Zhao; T. Nishiyama; A. Murakami Purpose The main purpose of this paper is to present and use the particle simulation method to explicitly simulate the spontaneous crack initiation phenomenon in brittle materials, and to compare the particle simulation results with experimental ones...