Forces in piles of granular material: An analytic and 3D DEM study

Granular Matter

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 165-176

  Liffman, Kurt ^a   Nguyen, Myhuong ^a   Metcalfe, Guy ^a   Cleary, Paul ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

DEM; Mechanics of discrete systems; Numerical modelling; Sandpiles; Stress dip

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035640259     PISSN: 14345021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100350100086     Document Type: Article

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