Ling Xu
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics
Modeling Material Failure and Rock Joint using the Material-Point Method
Rock fractures upon a large explosive loading. Joints are often seen in rock. Thus there is an inherent need to include these features when performing analyses on the safety of underground structures such as tunnels. In this work, we studied the damage near an tunnel subjected to an explosion at some distance. A numerical model is developed, based on an elastic-decohesive constitutive equation. The Material-Point method is applied to simulate such a process.
List of Speakers:
| Oct. 1 | Dervis Can Vural - Physics |
| Oct. 8 | Tim Weninger - Computer Science and Engineering |
| Oct. 15 | Zhangli Peng - Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering |
| Oct. 29 | Joel Boerckel - Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering |
| Nov. 5 | CANCELLED - Joseph Powers (Rescheduled date TBD) |
| Nov. 12 | Ling Xu - Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics |
| Nov. 19 | Pinar Zorlutuna - Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering |
| Dec. 3 | Amy Buchmann - Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics |
| Dec. 10 | Nicolas Brunel - Department of Statistics and Neurobiology, University of Chicago |