Experience with Ra values to friction tansformation

Submitted by MiroMüller on Fri, 12/16/2016 - 17:37

Hi

I'm new using LIGGGHTS.
I'd like to simulate a sand glass with LIGGGHTS. It works quite good for now, but i need a usable value for my sand's friction.

fix m4 all property/global coefficientFriction peratomtypepair 1 ??

If i had a Ra value, would it be possible to assess or even to compute the friction of my sand? (see the SEM picture)
Or has someone experience in simulating sand and knows a usable value?

something else:

I'm looking now for about 1h to find out, what LIGGGHTS means. It's something like LAMMPS improved general granular.... simulation...?

Can someone help me?

Thanks!

Miro

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MiroMüller | Mon, 12/19/2016 - 21:23

I've found the acronym for LIGGHTS

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j-kerbl | Wed, 12/21/2016 - 16:18

Hi Miro,

obtaining the correct parameters for a simulation is a tough job, since you usually get them from tuning a simulation to behave like a lab-experiment.
As you can imagine this takes quite the effort.
I am sorry, but I don't have values at hand, but maybe someone else on the forum has estimates.

Cheers,
Josef