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 Smooth Mach Dynamics -- Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics for solids and fluids
 
+Currently, the package has the following features:
+
+Does liquids via traditional Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH)
+
+Also solves solids mechanics problems via a state of the art
+stabilized meshless method with hourglass control.
+
+Can specify hydrostatic interactions independently from material
+strength models, i.e. pressure and deviatoric stresses are separated.
+
+Many material models available (Johnson-Cook, plasticity with
+hardening, Mie-Grueneisen, Polynomial EOS). Easy to add new material
+models.
+
+Rigid boundary conditions (walls) can be loaded as surface geometries
+from *.STL files.
+
+See the file doc/PDF/SMD_LAMMPS_userguide.pdf to get started.
+
+There are example scripts for using this package in examples/USER/smd.
 The person who created this package is Georg Ganzenmuller at the
 Fraunhofer-Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst Mach Institute in
 Germany (georg.ganzenmueller at emi.fhg.de).  Contact him directly if