Rod-Bonded Discrete Element Method

The Bonded Discrete Element Method (BDEM) has raised interests in the graphics community in recent years because of its good performance in fracture simulations. However, current explicit BDEM usually needs to work under very small time steps to avoid numerical instability. We propose a new BDEM, na...

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Main Authors: Kangrui Zhang, Han Yan, Jia-Ming Lu, Bo Ren
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-06-01
Series:Graphical Models
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1524070324000067
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Han Yan
Jia-Ming Lu
Bo Ren
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Bo Ren
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description The Bonded Discrete Element Method (BDEM) has raised interests in the graphics community in recent years because of its good performance in fracture simulations. However, current explicit BDEM usually needs to work under very small time steps to avoid numerical instability. We propose a new BDEM, namely Rod-BDEM (RBDEM), which uses Cosserat energy and yields integrable forces and torques. We further derive a novel Cosserat rod discretization method to effectively represent the three-dimensional topological connections between discrete elements. Then, a complete implicit BDEM system integrating the appropriate fracture model and contact model is constructed using the implicit Euler integration scheme. Our method allows high Young’s modulus and larger time steps in elastic deformation, breaking, cracking, and impacting, achieving up to 8 times speed up of the total simulation.
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spelling doaj.art-1b916434da93431b86850b7f8658d4dd2024-04-12T04:45:00ZengElsevierGraphical Models1524-07032024-06-01133101218Rod-Bonded Discrete Element MethodKangrui Zhang0Han Yan1Jia-Ming Lu2Bo Ren3TMCC, College of Computer Science, Nankai University, ChinaTMCC, College of Computer Science, Nankai University, ChinaTsinghua University, ChinaTMCC, College of Computer Science, Nankai University, China; Corresponding author.The Bonded Discrete Element Method (BDEM) has raised interests in the graphics community in recent years because of its good performance in fracture simulations. However, current explicit BDEM usually needs to work under very small time steps to avoid numerical instability. We propose a new BDEM, namely Rod-BDEM (RBDEM), which uses Cosserat energy and yields integrable forces and torques. We further derive a novel Cosserat rod discretization method to effectively represent the three-dimensional topological connections between discrete elements. Then, a complete implicit BDEM system integrating the appropriate fracture model and contact model is constructed using the implicit Euler integration scheme. Our method allows high Young’s modulus and larger time steps in elastic deformation, breaking, cracking, and impacting, achieving up to 8 times speed up of the total simulation.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1524070324000067Discrete element methodPhysically based animationFracture simulationElastic rods
spellingShingle Kangrui Zhang
Han Yan
Jia-Ming Lu
Bo Ren
Rod-Bonded Discrete Element Method
Graphical Models
Discrete element method
Physically based animation
Fracture simulation
Elastic rods
title Rod-Bonded Discrete Element Method
title_full Rod-Bonded Discrete Element Method
title_fullStr Rod-Bonded Discrete Element Method
title_full_unstemmed Rod-Bonded Discrete Element Method
title_short Rod-Bonded Discrete Element Method
title_sort rod bonded discrete element method
topic Discrete element method
Physically based animation
Fracture simulation
Elastic rods
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1524070324000067
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