LIGGGHTS® - User Forum

Dear LIGGGHTS users,

I recently use rolling frition model epsd for triaxial test simultation. When I create a bulk of particles, and let them settle under gravity, high omega is observed for alomst every particles, up to 500 rad/s. My particles have a radius from 1..10mm.

Can anybody help me with this.

neighbor 0.0005 bin
neigh_modify delay 0

hard_particles yes
# Material properties required for granular pair styles

Hello!

I am doing simulations of powder compaction using artificial gravity. I have been simulating them under 2000g. So once this gravity is applied, particles start to disappear as in the screenshot attached. You can see that number of particles reduced from 7884 to 7508 and then it stays constant. Reducing the time step from 1e-6 to 1e-7 seconds has increased the final number of particles, but only slightly, so some particles are always disappearing.

i am trying to compile Liggghts-public without mpi to define correctly the Makefile.user steps by steps, so I have launch "make auto -e USE_MPI=off -e DEBUG_INFO=yes"
and I got an error where vtkParallelMPI appears! see :

Hi!

Im having trouble with read_data for a model with bonded particles (Schramm/Richti83) using adhesive particles (washino/capillary/viscous).

I cant seem to get the format right in the data-file. Is there a way to check what format my particles have (e.g. ID x y z ...) When I use write_data to create a file I get the following format:

Atoms

1 1 9.0780778811098348e-03 8.4565641784780238e-03 1.9864876941739838e-03 1.8000000000000000e-05 1.0000000000008616e+03 0 0 0

Hello all,

I am using LIGGGHTS version 3.6.0 and CGS units. I am getting this error:
ERROR: youngsModulus <= 1e8 required for CGS units

So I think the unit here is dyn.cm−2 (=0.1 Pa), which means the limitation here is 1e7Pa. Am I understanding it correctly?
If it is yes, then it is not consistent with the youngsModulus limitation in SI units (1e9Pa). So I am wondering why?

Thanks!

Hello, I'm really new to using LIGGGHTS. I find it really hard just to install it as I'm not familiar with the codes given on the installation tutorial. Is there any alternatives on how I can install LIGGGHTS? Thank you very much

Hi everybody,

I am showing the force chains of a granular assembly obtained from LIGGGHTS using Paraview.
Problem1: Scaling is occurring in the reverse order, i.e. the weaker force chains are thicker and the strong force chains are thinner.
Problem2: Horizontal lines can be seen joining the lateral boundaries.

PS: I am using periodic boundaries at the lateral boundaries

Any suggestions will be very helpful.

Thanks,
Sounik

Hello,
I need to compute some parameter that relates the forces on particles to the force on contacts. I assumed that if particle i have n contacts, by adding up the forces at each contact I will recover the total force on the particle (without external forces). Unfortunately, that does not seem to be the case.

Hello!

Hi,

I would like to know if it is possible to define the initial position of a multisphere in LIGGGHTS (eg. placing a cube in the bottom of a tank) instead of inserting it at random places in a domain?
Also, in the "multisphere_stone_restitution" example, I did not understand how the atoms' positions were defined: in the "stone1.multisphere" file, the x, y, z coordinates are all positives, but when I output the results in Paraview, the x and y coordinates are negative. How are the atoms' positions actually defined?

Thank you for your time,
Andrea M.