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Sphere positions sorted

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Submitted by JF on Tue, 11/16/2010 - 11:35

Hi Christoph,

In the class atom, the sphere positions are sorted, it exists the array j = tag[i] to indicate at the line i you will have the sphere number j. I did not find, if it exists an array such as : i = invtag[j].

This array invtag[] is important in my case, because I load the interactions pair (Si, Sj) and I have noticed that the values of x[Si] do not correspond to the S1 poistion loaded via my file *.sys.

Please, can you help me to find this array (invtag) or desactivate the sorting only when I want to load the interactions file.

Loading multiple stl files

Submitted by moritzhoefert on Fri, 11/12/2010 - 13:39

Hello all,

I would like to simulate particles in a container that are stirred by to stirrers. The container is available in an stl file and so are the two stirrers. So, in total, I've got three stl files. I assume that splitting the whole geometry into 3 parts is necessary, since the two stirrers are supposed to have different angular velocities and the container is at rest.

While importing the second stl and and applying the fix wall/gran/hooke I get the following error message:

ERROR: There must be only one fix wall/gran with style 'mesh/gran'

How implement a new contact model ?

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Submitted by JF on Thu, 11/11/2010 - 17:14

Hi Christoph,

I am developing a new contact model. In my case as you suggested, I took the pair_gran_hooke_history like base.

For the first step, I only replaced the name of class PairGranHistory by PairLatticeHistory.

I have two files pair_lattice_history.cpp and pair_lattice_history.h. In the file .h, I change:

#ifdef PAIR_CLASS
PairStyle(lattice/history,PairLatticeHistory)
#else
#ifndef LMP_PAIR_LATTICE_HISTORY_H
#define LMP_PAIR_LATTICE_HISTORY_H

Thus into my simulation file, I can use this key word: pair_style lattice/history 1 0

How to induce stress-control compression test.

Submitted by tshan on Wed, 11/10/2010 - 10:42

Hi all,

I have no idea how liggghts generates stress-control compression tests, although I know that liggghts has a powerful engine to conduct strain-control ones. However, it is necessary to do stress-control if want to conduct drained triaxial test because I need to maintain the confined stress constant.

Could someone told me how to do stress-control compression or give me some suggestions?

Thanks!

Best,
Tong

Discussion: Implementation of tangential spring in pair_style gran/hooke

Submitted by Yansan on Mon, 11/08/2010 - 17:28

Hi all,
I think there are some problems with the implementation of the tangential spring in the pair_style gran/hooke, especially for soft particles where the overlap between the particles gets high.
So far the relative rotational velocities between 2 particles are calculated by using the radius of the particles:


wr1 = (radi*omega[i][0] + radj*omega[j][0]) * rinv;

The force application point for the tangential forces also lies on the radius of the particles:

torque[i][0] -= radi*tor1;

ERROR: Length not sufficient for variable youngsModulus

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Submitted by JF on Fri, 11/05/2010 - 12:45

Hi all,

I have this small error when I run my simulation :

85589 atoms
82223 atoms in group A
3366 atoms in group B
ERROR: Length not sufficient for variable youngsModulus

Do you know thir error ? How can I resolve this error ?

For information, if there is only one group of atoms (i.e., 85589 atoms in group A), the simulation runs.

Regards
JF

Ps: the Youg's modulus is defined for all groups (i.e., fix m1 all property/global youngsModulus peratomtype 1.e5)

scales

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Submitted by raguelmoon on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 11:36

Hi,
Why I can not find same scales of mesh object in LIGGGHTS when I import it made in Maya? I created mesh in cm in Maya and export it in STL. Then import the same in LIGGGHTS but it doesn't show the same scales of hight and diameter as that of Maya's. I have to rescale the object in LIGGGHTS for required scales. It takes a lot of time. Furthermore, height-diameter ratio will not remain same when it was in Maya.
Thanks,
Ram

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