Simulations of Granular Material 

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Problem Description

Shearing Granular Material-Simulation Results:

Particle Motion and Deformation

Force Chains

Shear Banding

References:

• S. G. Bardenhagen, J. U. Brackbill and D. L. Sulsky, A Numerical Study of Stress Distribution in Sheared Granular Material in Two Dimensins, Phys. Rev. E, 62 , 3882-3890 (2000). ( pdf, 482K)
• S. Bardenhagen, J. Brackbill and D. Sulsky, The Material-Point Method for Granular Materials, Comput. Meths. Appld. Mechs. Engrng., 187 , 529-541 (2000). ( pdf, 600K)
• S. Bardenhagen, J. Brackbill and D. Sulsky, Shear Deformation in Granular Material, Proc. 11th Int. Symp. on Det., Snowmass, Co. Aug., 1998. ( pdf, 161K)

A number of researchers are investigating the properties of granular materials.

• The Caltech Granular Flows Group
• The Powder Page
• The CATS Granular Flow Group
• Duke's Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
• The University of Chicago Granular Physics Group
• XMD A different view on sand
• Many Particle Physics Group at HLRZ
• Experiments on Granular Material by Michael A. Scherer
• Humboldt - Universität zu Berlin
• Center for Nonlinear Dynamics Austin
• Scientific Computing at Stony Brook
• The Particle Technology Center At NJIT
• Simulations of granular media by Didier Muller
• Dynamics of Granular Materials - ANL
• Institute for Computational Physics - Stuttgart

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