Abstract: This study presents a novel smoothed particle FEM (SPFEM) for large-deformation problems in geomechanics. Within the framework of the particle FEM (PFEM), a strain smoothing technique for nodal integration is incorporated. ...

Abstract: Abstract This paper presents an investigation of the spatial distribution of intraparticle voids of carbonate sand particles with the use of X-ray micro-computed tomography to capture the three-dimensional particle images. ...