DEM simulation of the packing structure and wall load in a 2-dimensional silo

Granular Matter

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 273-278

  Sykut, Joanna ^a   Molenda, Marek ^a   Horabik, Józef ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AGROPHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Discrete element method; Granular materials; Load distribution; Packing structure

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR OBJECTS; CONTACT POINTS; LOAD DISTRIBUTION; PACKING STRUCTURE;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; LOADS (FORCES); SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VECTORS;

GRANULAR MATERIALS;

EID: 44549087257     PISSN: 14345021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10035-008-0089-z     Document Type: Article

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