An investigation of the comparative behaviour of alternative contact force models during elastic collisions

Powder Technology

Volumn 210, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 189-197

  Thornton, Colin ^a   Cummins, Sharen J ^b   Cleary, Paul W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contact interaction laws; Discrete element method; Oblique impact

Indexed keywords

CONTACT FORCE MODELS; CONTACT INTERACTION; CONTACT MODELS; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; ELASTIC COLLISION; ELASTIC SPHERE; FORCE-DISPLACEMENT; LINEAR SPRING MODEL; NON-LINEAR; OBLIQUE IMPACT; SPRING STIFFNESS;

SPHERES; STIFFNESS;

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

ARTICLE; CONTACT FORCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; ELASTIC COLLISION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KINEMATICS; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RIGIDITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 79955902441     PISSN: 00325910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2011.01.013     Document Type: Article

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