Numerical investigation of particle shape and particle friction on limiting bulk friction in direct shear tests and comparison with experiments

Powder Technology

Volumn 212, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 231-239

  Härtl, Johannes ^a   Ooi, Jin Y ^b  

^a BASF SE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bulk friction; Contact friction; Discrete element; Jenike shear test; Non spherical particles; Packing density

Indexed keywords

BULK FRICTION; CONTACT FRICTION; DISCRETE ELEMENTS; JENIKE SHEAR TEST; NONSPHERICAL PARTICLE; PACKING DENSITY;

ASPECT RATIO; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GLASS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; SPHERES; TESTING; TRIBOLOGY;

FRICTION;

GLASS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BULK DENSITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTACT STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; FRICTION; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHEAR STRESS; SOLID STATE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 79959952883     PISSN: 00325910     EISSN: 1873328X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2011.05.022     Document Type: Article

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