Contributions to the experimental validation of the discrete element method applied to tumbling mills

Engineering Computations (Swansea, Wales)

Volumn 21, Issue 2-4, 2004, Pages 119-136

  McBride, Andrew ^a   Govender, Indresan ^a   Powell, Malcolm ^a   Cloete, Trevor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Discrete manufacturing; Experimentation; Simulation

Indexed keywords

BARRELING; COMMINUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; OPTIMIZATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); X RAY ANALYSIS;

DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD (DEM); DISCRETE MANUFACTURING; EXPERIMENTATION; X-RAY FILMING;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

EID: 2942571525     PISSN: 02644401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02644400410519703     Document Type: Conference Paper

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