DEM simulation of particle damage in granular media-structure interfaces

International Journal of Geomechanics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 21-39

  Jensen, Richard P ^a,b   Plesha, Michael E ^c   Edil, Tuncer B ^c   Bosscher, Peter J ^c,d   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; Damage; Discrete element method (DEM); Grain crushing

Indexed keywords

CRUSHING; NUMERICAL MODELS;

CLUSTERING; CRITICAL ENERGY DENSITY; DAMAGE; DEGREE OF DAMAGES; FAILURE CRITERIA; GRAIN CRUSHING; INTERFACE BEHAVIOR; PARTICLE BREAKAGE;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

EID: 0001911721     PISSN: 15323641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1532-3641(2001)1:1(21)     Document Type: Article

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