Some happy speakers and on-site participants at the end of the workshop

Thanks to its double spatial discretization with unattached Lagrangian material points and mesh gridpoints, the Material Point Method (MPM) has become a popular numerical method to simulate large displacements problems in solid mechanics, in spite of possible shortcomings for what concerns stress quadrature or energy conservation during time integration.

This informal, free, academic workshop will set a broad focus onto the MPM for discussing its general formulation or use cases e.g., for multiscale problems, as well as onto neighboring methods e.g., the Finite Element Method with Lagrangian Integration Points (FEMLIP).

• Jérôme Duriez (INRAE)
• Dominique Breil (INRAE)