A meshfree continuous-discontinuous approach for the ductile fracture modeling in explicit dynamics analysis.

This paper presents a combined continuous-discontinuous modeling technique for the dynamic ductile fracture analysis using an interactive particle enrichment algorithm and a strain-morphed nonlocal meshfree method. The strain-morphed nonlocal meshfree method is a nodel-integrated meshfree method which was recently proposed for the analysis of elastic-damage induced strain localization problems. In this paper, the strain-morphed nonlocal meshfree formulation is extended to the elastic-plastic-damage materials for the ductile fracture analysis. When the ductile material is fully degraded, the interactive particle enrichment scheme is introduced in the strain-morphed nonlocal meshfree formulation that permits a continuous-to-discontinuous failure modeling. The essence of the interactive particle enrichment algorithm is a particle insertion-deletion scheme that produces a visibility criterion for the description of a traction-free crack and leads to a better presentation of the ductile fracture process. Several numerical benchmarks are examined using the explicit dynamics analysis to demonstrate the effectiveness and accuracy of the proposed method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]