Three-dimensional discrete element simulation for granular materials

Engineering Computations (Swansea, Wales)

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 749-770

  Zhao, Dawei ^a   Nezami, Erfan G ^a   Hashash, Youssef M A ^a   Ghaboussi, Jamshid ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite element analysis; Flow; Materials management; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CODES (STANDARDS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRANULAR MATERIALS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

COMPUTATIONAL TIMES; CONTACT DAMPING; DISCRETE ELEMENT CODE (BLOKS3D); DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD (DEM);

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 33749016766     PISSN: 02644401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02644400610689884     Document Type: Article

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