Impact breakage of spherical, cuboidal and cylindrical agglomerates

Powder Technology

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 189-196

  Liu, L ^a   Kafui, K D ^b   Thornton, C ^b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agglomerates; Breakage; Discrete element method; Impact

Indexed keywords

CONTACT AREAS; DAMAGE RATIO; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; DISCRETE ELEMENT SIMULATION; ELASTIC SPHERE; IMPACT SITE; IMPACT VELOCITIES; INTERFACE ENERGY; INTERNAL DAMAGES; NON-SPHERICAL; NUMERICAL STUDIES; POLYDISPERSES; RATE OF CHANGE; SPHERICAL AGGLOMERATES; WALL-CONTACT;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POLYDISPERSITY; SPHERES;

AGGLOMERATION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MECHANICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; SIMULATION; VELOCITY;

EID: 76749131495     PISSN: 00325910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2010.01.007     Document Type: Article

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