Minkowski-Voronoi diagrams as a method to generate random packings of spheropolygons for the simulation of soils

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Galindo Torres, S A ^a,b   Munoz J D ^a,c   Alonso Marroquin F ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIAXIAL TESTS; COMPLEX-SHAPED PARTICLES; CONSERVATION OF ENERGY; CONTACT FORCES; CPU TIME; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS; HYSTERETIC BEHAVIOR; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MINKOWSKI; RANDOM PACKING; SHEAR BAND FORMATION; SOIL BEHAVIORS; VORONOI; VORONOI DIAGRAMS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; HYSTERESIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PACKING; POLYDISPERSITY; SOILS; THERMODYNAMICS; VECTOR SPACES;

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

EID: 78651358284     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.82.056713     Document Type: Article

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