Granular packing: Numerical simulation and the characterisation of the effect of particle shape

Granular Matter

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 281-292

  Guises, Romain ^a   Xiang, Jiansheng ^a   Latham, John Paul ^a   Munjiza, Antonio ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discrete element method; Finite element method; Force chains; Granular matter; Packing

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY SHAPE; CHARACTERISATION; CONTACT FORCES; CONTACT FRICTION; COORDINATION NUMBER; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; DISCRETE-ELEMENT APPROACH; EMERGENT PROPERTY; FINAL DENSITY; FORCE CHAINS; FORCE DISTRIBUTIONS; FRICTIONLESS SYSTEM; GRANULAR MATTER; GRANULAR MEDIUM; GRANULAR PACKINGS; GRANULAR PACKS; GRANULAR PARTICLES; GRANULAR SYSTEM; INPUT PARAMETER; MONODISPERSE SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PACKING DENSITY; PARTICLE SHAPE; SEDIMENTATION PROCESS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE FRICTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRICTION; GRANULAR MATERIALS; SEDIMENTATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

EID: 69549084555     PISSN: 14345021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10035-009-0148-0     Document Type: Article

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