Granular materials are abundant in nature, and in most industries, either the initial
constituents or final products are in granular form during a production or processing stage …

Finishing and transport operations of pharmaceutical tablets such as coating and conveying
processes can qualitatively be improved with a better understanding of the interplay of …

Most challenges during the development of solid dosage forms are related to the impact of
any variations in raw material properties, batch size, or equipment scales on the product …

The purpose of this work is to simulate the powder compaction of pharmaceutical materials
at the microscopic scale in order to better understand the interplay of mechanical forces …

The purpose of this study was to investigate the deformation behavior of non-spherical
particles during high-load compaction using the multi-contact discrete element method (MC …

The goal of the present study is to assess the extent of particle rearrangement and the
degree of anisotropy for uni-axial compaction of microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) by …

Granular materials are abundant in nature, and in most industries, either the initial
constituents or final products are in granular form during a production or processing stage …

Granular materials and powders often require thermal treatment in the food, mineral,
pharmaceutical and chemical industries. Rotating drums (kilns) are common devices for the …

Wheat flour processing involves gradual size reduction and size-based fractionation of
milled components. The size-based separation efficiency of wheat flour particles, with …

The following section introduces a simple problem to highlight the cohesive contact model in
use. A DEM Model (Figure 1) of equal dimensions to the Edinburgh Powder Tester (EPT)[1; …