Particle shape consideration in numerical simulation of assemblies of irregularly shaped particles

Particuology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 387-397

  Abedi, Saba ^a   Mirghasemi, Ali Asghar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Angularity; Confining pressure; Discrete element method; Granular soil

Indexed keywords

ANGULARITY; ARBITRARY NUMBER; BIAXIAL TESTS; CONFINING PRESSURES; DIRECT MODELING; GRAIN SHAPES; GRAIN TYPES; GRANULAR SOILS; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; PARTICLE SHAPE; SHAPED PARTICLES;

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; SOIL TESTING;

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

EID: 80052028101     PISSN: 16742001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.partic.2010.11.005     Document Type: Article

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