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Moving walls and stresses on them

Submitted by marketos on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 14:00

Hi all,

I have a question- Am I correct in assuming that there can only be one meshgran wall in a simulation?
If yes I have a slightly complex situation- I have a cube bounded by 6 flat surfaces in which I have my granular sample. I want to move the top surface only AND measure separately forces on the top, bottom and side surfaces.

Reduction of particle diameter over time ?

Submitted by xinze_l on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 05:39

Hello Christoph,

I wonder which commands can complete the reduction of particle diameter over time in a specified region just as you have gived example lammps_particleReduction_.wmv in this web. I think it is maybe lammps's some command or tips, Could you kindly give me help or instruction?

Thank you.

best regards,

leexz

cone-style insert region

Submitted by strakakl on Thu, 10/21/2010 - 19:04

Hi LIGGGHTS Users,

we try to create a cone-style insert region (just like a hopper) with the pour/dev/packing command. The input script looks like this:

#particle insertion region
region ins_cone cone z 0.04 0.0 0.01 0.065 0.09 0.16 units box
region ins_cyl cylinder z 0.04 0.0 0.065 0.08 0.16 units box
region no_ins_region intersect 2 ins_cyl ins_cone side out units box

...

#region and insertion
fix ins all pour/dev/packing 1 distributiontemplate pdd vol ${alphastart} 10 overlapcheck no region ins_cyl regionexempts 1 no_ins_region

Particle coordinates for read_data from dump file

Submitted by cgrohs on Tue, 10/19/2010 - 14:49

Dear LIGGGHTS users!

Attached you find a (not very sophisticated) Python script to produce a data file as input for a new simulation generated from a specified time step of a dump file of another calculation. Maybe this is useful for somebody as a starting point for similar problems.
The dump/custom command in the first simulation includes "id type type x y z ... radius mass".

Christian

PS: You have to rename the file extension to .py

Inserting particles at random positions

Submitted by mkoester on Tue, 10/19/2010 - 10:03

Hi everybody,

I am interested in a simulation of a big sphere containing a many smaller particles. I tried this simulation by adding particles of a defined radius on a regular lattice. The problem is that this reguar structure works a a kind of crystalline system with slip planes when I try to deform it.

However I'd like to try another approach by adding the particles without a lattice with the "pour command". Is there a way to use this command with a sphere as the input region (and not a cube or a cylinder)?

regards,
Martin Koester

Gran/Hooke material properties calculation wrong?

Submitted by Yansan on Mon, 10/18/2010 - 13:38

Hi all,

For the gran/hooke pair style the documentation says that the equation for the elastic constant is:

k_n = 15/16* ...

In the code the elastic constant is calculated as follows:

kn=(16./15.)*sqrt(reff)* ...

So which one is right, the code or the documentation?

Thanks
Yansan

time step vs material properties

Submitted by CARLOS AVILA on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 03:24

Hi,
Could some body please, let me know what causes the following error message:
*****************************************************************
Setting up run ...
Memory usage per processor = 10.1914 Mbytes
Step Atoms KinEng 1 Volume
1 2000 0.0047170791 0 0.0015
......
.........
37000 2000 0.0094914152 0 0.0015
38000 2000 0.0094929527 2.9568818e-05 0.0015
39000 2000 0.0097540535 0.00030106194 0.0015
40000 2000 0.0101535 0.00085611282 0.0015

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