MPM-Geomechanics

The MPM-Geomechanics is an implementation of the Material Point Method to simulate large strain geomechanical problems.

The main objectives of this program are:

• Provide an open source platform suitable for the study and application of MPM in various geomechanical problems.

• provide an adequate computational tool to simulate geomechanical problems involving large deformations.

Program Features

The main features of the program are:

• Three-dimensional formulation
• Dynamic formulation
• Shared memory parallelization
• Elastic constitutive models
• Elasto-plastic constitutive models
• Softening/Hardening by deformation
• Coupled hydromechanical formulation (under development)

Compilation

To compile the program run make in the /make folder:

/make$ make

Documentation

The program documentation is generated using Doxygen.To generate the documentation, run:

/doxygen$ doxygen

The HTML documentation is located in the /doxygen/html directory. To generate the PDF file, run make inside the doxy/latex directory.

/doxygen/latex$ make

Execution

In order the run the program execute it with the name of the input file:

$ MPM-Geomechanics example.json