Shape representation and contact detection for discrete element simulations of arbitrary geometries

DOI10.1108/02644409810208525zbMath0935.74067OpenAlexW1985199872MaRDI QIDQ4241303

Caroline Hogue

Publication date: 9 May 2000

Published in: Engineering Computations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1108/02644409810208525

zbMATH Keywords

continuous function representationsdiscrete function representationsgeometrical shape descriptorsgranular bodiesinterparticle contactspolygons/polyhedrons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Contact in solid mechanics (74M15) Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05) Granularity (74E20)

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