A contact dynamics approach to the Granular Element Method

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 268, Issue , 2014, Pages 557-573

  Lim, Keng Wit ^a   Krabbenhoft, Kristian ^b   Andrade, José E ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contact dynamics; Discrete element method; Granular Element Method; NURBS

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR PARTICLES; CONTACT DYNAMICS; DEFORMATION REGIMES; DYNAMIC FLOW CONDITIONS; GRANULAR ELEMENT METHOD; IMPLICIT TIME INTEGRATION; NURBS; SYSTEM PROPERTY;

DYNAMICS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

EID: 84887367252     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2013.10.004     Document Type: Article

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