A micropolar anisotropic constitutive model of cancellous bone from discrete homogenization

I Goda, M Assidi, S Belouettar, JF Ganghoffer - Journal of the mechanical …, 2012‏ - Elsevier
Cosserat models of cancellous bone are constructed, relying on micromechanical
approaches in order to investigate microstructure-related scale effects on the macroscopic …

A DEM study on the effective thermal conductivity of granular assemblies

HW Zhang, Q Zhou, HL **ng, H Muhlhaus - Powder Technology, 2011‏ - Elsevier
A discrete element method (DEM) is developed to simulate the heat transfer in granular
assemblies in vacuum with consideration of the thermal resistance of rough contact …

Granular stresses in granular flows subjected to different obstacles

YC Chung - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Although the application and development of continuum approaches demonstrate immense
promise to model granular flows, the assumption of isotropic stress state in a constitutive law …

[HTML][HTML] Continuum modeling of periodic brickwork

G Salerno, G De Felice - International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2009‏ - Elsevier
Continuum models of periodic masonry brickwork, viewed at a micro-level as a discrete
system, are identified within the frame of linearized elasticity. The accuracy of various …

Granular micromechanics based continuum model for grain rotations and grain rotation waves

P Poorsolhjouy, A Misra - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Grain rotations are a key component of the grain-scale deformation kinematics of granular
materials. For describing the deformation of these materials at large length scales …

[HTML][HTML] A micro–macro homogenization approach for discrete particle assembly–Cosserat continuum modeling of granular materials

X Li, Q Liu, J Zhang - International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2010‏ - Elsevier
Based on Hill's lemma for classical Cauchy continuum, a version of Hill's lemma for micro–
macro homogenization modeling of Cosserat continuum is derived. The derived admissible …

Simulation of strain localization with discrete element-Cosserat continuum finite element two scale method for granular materials

H Tang, Y Dong, T Wang, Y Dong - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
A multiscale method is proposed based on an individual particle provided with rotational
freedom, which considers the kinematic connections and transformation consistency of …

Criteria for static equilibrium in particulate mechanics computations

X Tu, JE Andrade - International journal for numerical methods …, 2008‏ - Wiley Online Library
The underlying physics of granular matter can be clearly solved using particulate mechanics
methods, eg the discrete element method (DEM) that is inherently discontinuous and …

A bridging scale method for granular materials with discrete particle assembly–Cosserat continuum modeling

X Li, K Wan - Computers and Geotechnics, 2011‏ - Elsevier
Based on the bridging scale method (BSM) initially presented in nano mechanics [1, 2], a
new version of the BSM that couples discrete particle assembly modeling using the discrete …

Generalized multiscale finite element method for a nonlinear elastic strain-limiting Cosserat model

D Ammosov, T Mai, J Galvis - Journal of Computational Physics, 2024‏ - Elsevier
For nonlinear Cosserat elasticity, we consider multiscale methods in this paper. In particular,
we explore the generalized multiscale finite element method (GMsFEM) to solve an isotropic …