Procedure for contact detection in discrete element analysis

Advances in Engineering Software

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 409-415

  Liu, X L ^a   Lemos, J V ^a  

^a NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Block; Contact; Detection; Discrete element

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

BLOCK CONTACTS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0035342087     PISSN: 09659978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-9978(00)00101-0     Document Type: Article

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