Effect of particle shape on interface behavior of DEM-simulated granular materials

International Journal of Geomechanics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-19

  Jensen, Richard P ^a,b   Edil, Tuncer B ^c   Bosscher, Peter J ^c   Plesha, Michael E ^c   Kahla, Nabil Ben ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GABES   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Clustering; Discrete element method (DEM); Particle roughness; Particle shape

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FRICTION; GRANULAR MATERIALS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NUMERICAL METHODS; SHEAR FLOW;

CLUSTERING; COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION; INTERFACE FRICTION ANGLE; INTERFACE SHEAR STRENGTH; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PARTICLE SHAPE; PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; SYSTEMATIC CORRELATION;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 0000438509     PISSN: 15323641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1532-3641(2001)1:1(1)     Document Type: Article

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