Product: Abaqus/Explicit
Benefits: Continuum finite elements can be converted to SPH particles that are uniformly distributed in an equally spaced background grid.
Description: The origin of the background grid is placed at the center of mass of the element set to be converted. The finite elements in the set are converted to SPH particles with a uniform distribution at the beginning of the analysis. All generated particles have the same volume and mass, and you can specify the thickness of the particles used for resolving initial overclosures between the particles and the surfaces in the general contact domain.
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