Speed up discrete element simulation of asphalt mixtures with user-written C++ codes

Airfield and Highway Pavements: Efficient Pavements Supporting Transportation's Future - Proceedings of the 2008 Airfield and Highway Pavements Conference

Volumn 329, Issue , 2008, Pages 65-73

  Liu, Yu ^a   You, Zhanping ^a  

^a Michigan Technological University   (United States)

Author keywords

Asphalts; Discrete elements; Mixtures; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED APPLICATIONS; ASPHALT MIXTURE; C++ CODES; DISCRETE ELEMENT SIMULATION; DISCRETE ELEMENTS; EMBEDDED PROGRAMMING; PARTICLE FLOW CODE; SIMULATION; SIMULATION RESULT; SIMULATION SPEED; SPEED RATIO; SPEED-UPS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL;

ASPHALT; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; MIXTURES; PAVEMENTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 78751653966     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/41005(329)6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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