Shape representation and contact detection for discrete element simulations of arbitrary eometries

Engineering Computations (Swansea, Wales)

Volumn 15, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 374-390

  Hogue, Caroline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROCK MECHANICS; DYNAMICS;

COLLISION DETECTION; CONTACT DETECTION; SHAPE REPRESENTATION; SUPERQUADRIC CURVES; DISCRETE ELEMENTS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 0031681697     PISSN: 02644401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02644409810208525     Document Type: Article

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