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Comparative 3D DEM simulations of sand–structure interfaces with similarly shaped clumps versus spheres with contact moments.
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Three-dimensional simulations of a monotonic quasi-static interface behaviour between initially dense cohesionless sand and a rigid wall of different roughness during tests in a parallelly guided direct shear test under constant normal stress are presented. Numerical modelling was carried out by the discrete element method (DEM) using clumps in the form of convex non-symmetric irregularly shaped grains. The clumps had an aspect ratio of 1.5. A regular grid of triangular grooves (asperities) along the wall with a different height at the same distance was assumed. The numerical results with clumps were directly compared under the same conditions with our earlier DEM simulations using pure spheres with contact moments with respect to the peak and residual interface friction angle, width of the interface shear zone, ratio between grain slips and grain rotations, distribution of contact forces and stresses. The difference between the behaviour of clumps and pure spheres with contact moments proved to be noticeable in the post-peak regime due to a different particle shape. The rolling resistance model with pure spheres was proved to be limited for capturing particle shape effects. Three different boundary conditions along the interface were proposed for micropolar continua, considering grain rotations and grain slips, wall grain moments and wall grain forces, and normalized interface roughness. The numerical results in this paper offer a better understanding of the interface behaviour of granular bodies in DEM and FEM simulations.
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- artykuły w czasopismach
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Acta Geotechnica
no. 16,
pages 3533 - 3554,
ISSN: 1861-1125 - Language:
- English
- Publication year:
- 2021
- Bibliographic description:
- Grabowski A., Nitka M., Tejchman-Konarzewski A.: Comparative 3D DEM simulations of sand–structure interfaces with similarly shaped clumps versus spheres with contact moments.// Acta Geotechnica -Vol. 16, (2021), s.3533-3554
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- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1007/s11440-021-01255-0
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- Gdańsk University of Technology
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