Explicit phase-field material point method with the convected particle domain interpolation for impact/contact fracture in elastoplastic geomaterials

A novel explicit phase-field material point method with the convected particle domain interpolation (ePF-CPDI) is proposed for solving large deformation dynamic impact/contact fracture problems in elastoplastic geomaterials. In this method, we derive an explicit rate-dependent phase-field fracture model relying on the microforce balance law and the second law of thermodynamics. A coupled explicit phase-field plasticity model is then developed to describe dynamic elastoplastic fracture responses of geomaterials. Here the explicit time integration strategy and the staggered solution scheme are utilized in this work to solve the coupled-field governing equations based on the material point method. To eliminate the numerical noises caused by material points crossing cell boundaries, the convected particle domain interpolation technique is adopted to improve the computational accuracy in large deformation simulation. Furthermore, the proposed approach combining with the particle to particle contact algorithm is extended to deal with more complicated high-velocity impact and multi-body contact elastoplastic fracture problems. Numerical experiments are employed to validate the high accuracy and excellent capability of the proposed method and discuss the influences of main parameters on the phase-field fracture modeling. (c) 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.