Prediction of draft forces in cohesionless soil with the Discrete Element Method

Journal of Terramechanics

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 347-358

  Obermayr, Martin ^a   Dressler, Klaus ^a   Vrettos, Christos ^b   Eberhard, Peter ^c  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INDUSTRIAL MATHEMATICS ITWM   (Germany)

^b University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

DEM; Discrete Element Method; Reaction force; Soil tool interaction

Indexed keywords

ANGLE OF INTERNAL FRICTION; BULK MATERIALS; BULK PROPERTIES; COHESIONLESS MATERIALS; COHESIONLESS SOIL; COMPLEX TOOL GEOMETRY; CONTACT PARAMETERS; DEM; DRAFT FORCE; EMPIRICAL FORMULAS; HORIZONTAL FORCES; INDUSTRIAL SIMULATION; LABORATORY TEST; NUMERICAL MODELS; PARTICLE ROTATIONS; QUASI-STATIC CONDITIONS; REACTION FORCES; SHEAR RESISTANCES; SOIL-TOOL INTERACTION; SPHERICAL PARTICLE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORECASTING; ROTATION;

SOIL TESTING;

EID: 80255129205     PISSN: 00224898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jterra.2011.08.003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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