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VENUE
The workshop will be held at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA​
Building: Kelly Hall, Room: 310.


​WORKSHOP DINNER
The workshop dinner will be held the evening of September 9 at 622 North.

AGENDA
​​Day 1 Agenda – Monday, September 9, 2019
8:00-9:15 Registration – Meet/Coffe/Breakfast –  Light refreshments will be provided
9:15-9:30 Opening and Meeting Overview
9:30-10:00 A convected-particle tetrahedron interpolation in the material-point method –        
                 Brian Leavy*, J.E Guilkey, A.D. Spear, R.M. Brannon (US Army Research Laboratory)
10:00-10:30 Material Point Method Simulations using an Approximate Full Mass Matrix Inverse –
                 John Nairn*, C. C. Hammerquist (Oregon State University)
10:30-11:00 Using NURBS as shape functions for MPM –                                                           
                 Christopher Long*, D. Zhang, Y. Bazilevs, G. Moutsanidis (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-11:45 Application of MPM to complex geometry –                                                                        
                 Jiajia Waters*, A. B. Isner; D. Z. Zhang (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
11:45-12:15 The Material Point Method applied to stochastic material properties –                  
                 Rebecca Brannon (University of Utah)
12:15-1:15 Lunch – Lunch will be provided
1:15-1:45 Application of the MPM to Study Rate Effects in Compaction of Brittle Powders –        
                 Michael Homel*, S. J. Povolny, E. B. Herbold (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
1:45-2:15 Analysis of Strong Shock Simulations in the Material Point Method –                        
                 Stefan J. Povolny*, M. A. Homel, E. B. Herbold (Virginia Tech)
2:15-2:45 An alternative approach to contact problems for small deformation MPM simulations –                                                         James Guilkey (University of Utah)
2:45-3:15 Modeling the Impact of Interfaces on Hydraulic Fracture Propagation –                      
                 Chad Hammerquist*, Y. Aimene (FracGeo)
3:15 -3:30 Break – Light refreshments will be provided
3:30-4:00 Simulation of free fall penetrometer impact in dry and saturated sands –                    
                 Luis Zambrano Cruzatty*, A. Yerro (Virginia Tech)
4:00-4:30 New approach to simulate internal erosion with MPM –                                                 
                 John Murphy*, A. Yerro, K. Soga (University of California, Berkeley)
4:30-5:00 Axisymmetric Double-Point MPM for dynamic compaction simulations –           
                 Alexander Chmelnizkij*, A. Orlova, J. Grabe (Hamburg University of Technology)
6:30-9:00 Dinner – 622 North Restaurant, Blacksburg

Day 2 Agenda – Tuesday, September 10, 2019
8:30-9:00 Meet/Coffe/Breakfast – Light refreshments will be provided
9:00-9:30 Evaluation of dynamic explicit MPM formulations for unsaturated soils –     
                 Francesca Ceccato*, V. Girardi, A. Yerro, P. Simonini (University of Padua)
9:30-10:00 A stable material point method for coupled analysis of saturated soil problems –
                 Shyamini Kularathna*, K. Soga (University of California, Berkeley)
10:00-10:30 Soil-structure interaction problems with MPM –                                                            
                 Mario Martinelli (Deltares)
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:15 An MPM investigation into the impact of dam-break floods on porous walls –             
                 Lucy Harris*, X. Zhao, D. Liang (University of Cambridge)
11:15-11:45 Prediction of the bearing capacity of a strip footing at large penetration depths using the material point                  method – Vibhav Bisht*, R. Salgado, M. Prezzi (Purdue University)
11:45-12:15 A parametric and sensitivity seismic slope analysis using the Material Point Method –
                 Mauricio Alvarado*, R. Fuentes (University of Leeds)
12:15-1:15 Lunch – Lunch will be provided
1:15-1:45 Modelling tunnel-induced deformations with the material point method –           
                 James Fern (Amberg Engineering)
1:45-2:15 A scalable material point method code for large-scale simulations –                   
                 Krishna Kumar*, S. Kularathna (University of Texas, Austin)
2:15-2:30 Break – Light refreshments will be provided
2:30-3:00 A Thermomechanical Material Point Method for Baking and Cooking –         
                 Mengyuan Ding*, X. Han, S. Wang, T. Gast, J. Teran (University of California, Los Angeles)
3:00-3:30 Modeling Irregular Boundaries Using Isoparametric Elements in Material Point Method –
                 Ezra Setiasabda*, S. Kularathna, K. Kumar, K. Soga (University of California, Berkeley)
3:30-4:30 Final discussion
 
Day 3 Agenda – Wednesday, September 11, 2019
8:30-9:00 Meet/Coffe/Breakfast – Light refreshments will be provided
8:45-9:00 Overview of Software Training Course
9:00-10:30 Uintah-MPM or Uintah-MPMICE Software (Jim E. Guilkey, University of Utah)
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:15 NairnMPM Software (John Nairn, Oregon State University) 
12:15-1:15 Lunch – Lunch will be provided
1:15-2:45 Anura3D Software (Anura3D Research Community)
2:45-3:00 Break – Light refreshments will be provided
3:00-4:30 Anura3D Software (Anura3D Research Community)
4:30-4:45 Closure




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