On a Quasi-static Discrete Element Model of Granular Materials

Computers and Geotechnics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 145-165

  Tzaferopoulos, M Ap ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DEFORMATION; FRICTION; GRANULAR MATERIALS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

ASSEMBLY EQUILIBRIUM PROBLEM; COULOMB FRICTION; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; LINEAR MINIMIZATION SUBPROBLEMS; NONLINEAR CONSTRAINTS; QUASI-STATIC DISCRETE ELEMENT MODEL; RIGID CONTACTS; STICKING FRICTION;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DEFORMATION; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; GRANULAR MEDIUM;

EID: 0029668581     PISSN: 0266352X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0266-352X(95)00020-B     Document Type: Article

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