Comparison of experimental and FEM/DEM results for gravitational deposition of identical cubes

Engineering Computations (Swansea, Wales)

Volumn 21, Issue 2-4, 2004, Pages 249-264

  Munjiza, A ^a   Latham, J P ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Experimentation; Finite element analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRAVITATION; MINING; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROCKS;

DISCRETE ELEMENT METHODS (DEM); EXPERIMENTATION; GRAVITATIONAL FORCES; PACKING PROBLEMS;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 2942576201     PISSN: 02644401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02644400410519776     Document Type: Conference Paper

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