Numerical simulation of granular materials by an improved discrete element method

DOI10.1002/nme.1209zbMath1060.74666MaRDI QIDQ4651943

Olivier Millet, Jérôme Fortin, Gery De Saxce

Publication date: 23 February 2005

Published in: International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.1209

zbMATH Keywords

granular materials; Coulomb's dry friction; contact dynamics; discrete element method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

74M10: Friction in solid mechanics

74M15: Contact in solid mechanics

74E20: Granularity

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