1. Foreword

   • Tarek I. Zohdi

   EditorialNotes 04 February 2016 Pages: 1 - 1

2. Reconsideration of metal surface sputtering due to bombardment of high-energy argon ion particles: a molecular dynamics study

   • Kishore K. Kammara
   • Rakesh Kumar
   • Ferdin S. Donbosco

   OriginalPaper 19 September 2015 Pages: 3 - 13

   

3. Micro-mechanical study of stress path and initial conditions in granular materials using DEM

   • Omid Dorostkar
   • Ali Asghar Mirghasemi

   OriginalPaper 19 October 2015 Pages: 15 - 27

   

4. Application of an enhanced discrete element method to oil and gas drilling processes

   • Pere Andreu Ubach
   • Ferran Arrufat
   • Eugenio Oñate

   OriginalPaper 23 October 2015 Pages: 29 - 41

   

5. Warm starting the projected Gauss–Seidel algorithm for granular matter simulation

   • Da Wang
   • Martin Servin
   • Tomas Berglund

   OriginalPaper 25 November 2015 Pages: 43 - 52

   

6. A comparison of finite element analysis to smooth particle hydrodynamics for application to projectile impact on cementitious material

   • Nikolas A. Nordendale
   • William F. Heard
   • Prodyot K. Basu

   OriginalPaper 26 December 2015 Pages: 53 - 68

   

7. Plastic deformation in a metallic granular chain

   • Ryan W. Musson
   • William Carlson

   OriginalPaper 29 December 2015 Pages: 69 - 82

   

8. Numerical analysis of the wave force acting on a cylinder in regular waves using the MPS method

   • Xuemin Song
   • Kazuya Shibata
   • Seiichi Koshizuka

   OriginalPaper 28 December 2015 Pages: 83 - 93

   

9. Development of a coupled discrete element (DEM)–smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulation method for polyhedral particles

   • Benjamin Nassauer
   • Thomas Liedke
   • Meinhard Kuna

   OriginalPaper 27 January 2016 Pages: 95 - 106

   

10. Adaptive model reduction for nonsmooth discrete element simulation

    • Martin Servin
    • Da Wang

    OriginalPaper 09 January 2016 Pages: 107 - 121