Soft PARticle Code swMATH ID: 26068 Software Authors: Schneider-Muntau, Barbara; Chen, Chien-Hsun; Bathaeian, S. M. Iman Description: Soft PArticle Code (SPARC): Simulation of shear bands with soft particle code (SPARC) and FE. This article studies from a numerical point of view how shear bands develop, their thickness and orientation. A biaxial test is employed for homogeneous/ inhomogeneous localized deformation and two numerical approaches for solving problems of continuum mechanics are presented and compared, namely the meshless “Soft PARticle Code” method and the mesh based Finite Element method. The former is a straightforward collocation numerical method based on strong formulation, in which a first order polynomial basis is adopted for the evaluation of spatial derivatives in partial differential equations. The latter uses the weak formulation to solve the underlying differential equation. The authors adopt the novel nonlinear constitutive model “barodesy for clay”. Results of simulations with SPARC and FE with implemented imperfection and the same number of particles or nodes, have shown that the inclination and shape of shear band from both methods is comparable and almost similar. Homepage: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13137-016-0091-2 Keywords: shear band; barodesy; soft particle code (SPARC); finite element method; biaxial test Related Software: MESHFREE Cited in: 4 Publications Standard Articles 1 Publication describing the Software, including 1 Publication in zbMATH Year Simulation of shear bands with soft particle code (SPARC) and FE. Zbl 1396.74097Schneider-Muntau, Barbara; Chen, Chien-Hsun; Bathaeian, S. M. Iman 2017 all top 5 Cited by 10 Authors 3 Chen, Chien Hsun 2 Bathaeian, S. M. Iman 2 Kolymbas, Dimitrios 2 Kuhnert, Jörg 2 Polymerou, I. 2 Schneider-Muntau, Barbara 1 Bathaeian, Iman 1 Michel, Isabel 1 Ostermann, Isabel 1 Šmilauer, Vít Cited in 1 Serial 4 GEM - International Journal on Geomathematics Cited in 3 Fields 4 Partial differential equations (35-XX) 4 Numerical analysis (65-XX) 3 Mechanics of deformable solids (74-XX) Citations by Year