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The virtual optimisation of tooling equipment is nowadays one of the common challenges in mechanical serial production. Even some numerical Eulerian approaches (grid-based) exist for modelling solid materials under dynamic loading, most of them are not very successful. Especially the solids undergoing large deformation and the subsequent material separation and propagating cracks demonstrate the limitations: variables become discontinuous across the crack surface, and the computational domain loses its continuum nature. Grid-based methods are not naturally equipped to deal with such situations due to the mesh distortion, mesh entanglement and requirement of mesh refinement. Very promising alternatives to the Eulerian methods are meshfree Lagrangian methods. Among them, smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is entirely meshfree and naturally equipped to handle large material deformation. In SPH the computational domain is discretised by a set of particles.