Silo pressure predictions using discrete-element and finite-element analyses

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 356, Issue 1747, 1998, Pages 2685-2712

  Rotter, J M ^a   Holst, J M F G ^a   Ooi, J Y ^a   Sanad, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Challenge calculations; Discharge from a silo; Filling of a silo; Granular solid; Numerical analyses; Wall pressures

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042983942     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1998.0293     Document Type: Article

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