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Modelling and animation of impact and damage with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

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In this paper we present a unique procedure for extending the method of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) to allow for the simulation of permanently deformable soft-solid materials. SPH has previously been shown to be a computationally and visually effective method for fluid dynamics simulations and recently for modelling the deformation of elastic soft solids. By incorporating new parameters into the procedure, the current research is able to demonstrate a range of visually appealing plasticity and damage scenarios. As SPH is a mesh-free Lagrangian method, data can be manipulated to allow for parallelisation using nVidia’s CUDA platform, as is shown here where simulations are capable of performing at real-time rates.

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The work presented in this paper is supported by the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Collaborative Health Research Project (CHRP-398837-2011) and the Ontario Research Fund: Research Excellent Project (MESSAGES).

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  1. School of Information Technology, Carleton University, 1125 Colonal By Dr., Ottawa , K1S 5B6, Canada

    Sean LeBlanc & Chris Joslin

  2. Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, 1125 Colonal By Dr., Ottawa, K1S 5B6, Canada

    Philip Boyer

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LeBlanc, S., Boyer, P. & Joslin, C. Modelling and animation of impact and damage with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics. Vis Comput 30, 909–917 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00371-014-0981-y

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