Development of Soft Particle Code (SPARC).

Intro -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Numerical simulation and approximation methods -- 1.2 Goal and outline -- 2 Soft Particle Code (SPARC) -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Discretization of continuum -- 2.3 Neighbor search -- 2.4 Spatial derivatives -- 2.5 Constitutive model -- 2.6 System of equations -- 2.7 Numerical Solver -- 2.8 Pressure boundary condition -- 2.9 Parallelization -- 3 Parameter Study -- 3.1 Benchmark -- 3.2 Numerical solvers -- 3.3 Support size -- 3.4 Irregular array of particles -- 4 Simulation of Conventional Laboratory Tests -- 4.1 Oedometer test -- 4.2 Triaxial test -- 5 Validation -- 5.1 Oedometer test -- 5.2 Triaxial test -- 5.3 Simulation with FE method -- 6 Simulation of the 'Zig-Zag'-Tests -- 6.1 Boundary conditions -- 6.2 Simulation set-ups -- 6.3 Results -- 6.4 Summary -- 7 Summary, Limitations and Outlook -- 7.1 Summary -- 7.2 Limitations -- 7.3 Outlook.

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