Granular soils are abundant in nature and extensively used for engineering purposes.
Understanding the correlation between particle breakage and its mechanical response of …

Discrete element method (DEM)-based simulations are crucial for bridging macro and micro
research, particularly owing to the limitations of experimental methods. This paper reviews …

A series of numerically triaxial shear tests on crushable and uncrushable granular soils
reinforced by geogrid were conducted using 3-Dimension Particle Flow Code. The …

Numerical modeling of crushable granular materials is a challenging but important topic
across many disciplines of science and engineering. Commonly adopted modeling …

Binary granular soils, mixtures of carbonate sands and nonplastic fines, are widely used for
constructions of foundation, airport and embankment in island and coast. Impact load (eg …

Recently a new three-dimensional fracture model has been developed in the context of the
combined finite-discrete element method. In order to provide quantitative guidance for …

Crushing of rockfill grains is one of the most important issues in the stability study of rockfill
dams/embankments. In engineering applications, crushing characteristics of a rockfill grain …

The concrete faced rockfill dam is composed of granular materials and the failure pathways
typically exhibits multi-scale mechanical behavior. In this paper, a 2D polygonal DEM-FEM …

Tumbling mills are widely used in industry. Liner wear of the mills, which is due to the
impacts of the non-spherical ore particles, can significantly affect the availability. In this …

Abstract A combined DEM-XFEM novel approach is used to simulate the direct shear test on
assemblies of breakable two-dimensional angular particles in order to study the macro-and …