found: Work cat.: Moore, J.A. Extension of the material point method for modeling interaction of distinct phases in porous continua, 2007:abstract (the MPM was introduced as an extension of the particle-in-cell method ...) p. 3 (material point method is an approach to approximate the behavior of continuous bodies (continua))
found: Guilkey, J.E. An introduction to the material point method, via WWW, Dec. 7, 2007:introd. (the material point method (MPM) ... is a particle method for structural mechanics simulations)
found: Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, via WWW, Dec. 7, 2007:Research--comp. mech. (material point method (MPM) is a particle method for simulations in computational fluid and solid mechanics)
found: Inspec via Engineering village 2, Dec. 7, 2007(material point method; MPM)