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Calibrate spheres to mimic real soils

Submitted by gukargl on Mon, 07/01/2013 - 15:37

Hi,

What would be the best way to calibrate the simulated particles to behave like a real granular soil and how to demonstrate this?
Is there a way to run some virtual triaxial and shear tests which can be compared to real measurements?
Has somebody done already so and would be willing to share some information?

Cheers
Günter

About simulating rock-like material

Submitted by xiuhan on Mon, 07/01/2013 - 11:42

Hi all, I wanna simulate brittle material like rock, which means the bonds between particles should start from a bonding model with certain strength(both in normal and shear direction), then after loading (acting external force), the bonds should break and then the particles can move freely so that a collision model should be applied.
Does anyone have similar problem, how you solve it with liggghts, what contact model you used?
really appreciate any reply.

Question about rigid bodies

Submitted by zamir on Thu, 06/27/2013 - 21:40

Hello all,

I want to simulate a large number of rigid bodies in a granular simulation. Currently I am using fix rigid, which does not scale very well in parallel. Would I get an appreciable speed up if I use POEMS to handle the rigid bodies? Additionally, I was thinking about using very stiff lj/coul bonds to simulate the rigid bodies, would this increase my speed in parallel?

Thank you!
Zamir

characteristic impact velocity

Submitted by knoe_ph on Thu, 06/27/2013 - 10:12

Hallo everyone,

I recently found out that the characteristic impact velocity (used for hookeian contact; described in pair_gran) have a high influence to the outcome of my simulation.

I'm not sure which is the meaning of this impact velocity and how to calculate it, maybe someone is able to explain it to me. Since im simulating an almost steady pebble bed, I assume I should set the impact velocity to zero or near zero. Is this correct?

Kind regards,
Philipp

inserting particles in a ball mill

Submitted by g.garate on Tue, 06/25/2013 - 05:34

Hi all

I'm simulating a ball mill and I would like to know when the particles have filled 15% of the ball mill volume in order to stop de insertion. Is there any way to do this adding a line in the script?

I'm filling the ball mill with insert/stream fix but I don't think this is the best way. is there any better way to insert the particles in this case? I would like to make start the spin of the ball mill sooner.

Best

illegal pair_style command

Submitted by manjura on Tue, 06/25/2013 - 01:39

Hello,

I was trying to run LIGGGHTS examples using liggghts executable. But it shows the following error -
ERROR: Illegal pair_style command

I am using newest version of LIGGGHTS. But when i write 'liggghts' on terminal shows-
LIGGGHTS 1.5 based on lammps-10Mar10

What might be the reason for that error?

Please help me out.

Thanks
Manjura

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