No. That's because the *sphere components* in a clump are just shape representations, and they have no physics, only material properties. If they did have interaction with each other then every clump would've immediately exploded upon simulation starting.
Thank you, Ruochun On Thursday, May 23, 2024 at 12:16:32 PM UTC+8 weigan...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi Ruochun, > > Thank you for your reply! I have a question about the clump. Do the > particles in a clump interact with each other via any force model? > > Thank you, > Weigang > > On Monday, May 20, 2024 at 10:26:03 PM UTC+8 Ruochun Zhang wrote: > >> Hi Weigang, >> >> Yes. Again, DEME only cares about the position and radius of the >> initial spheres, so you can supply it however you want. If you have a file >> that records this information using your own format, then the easiest thing >> is to have your own C++ or Python script that reads it into arrays and then >> feeds them to the solver. If your file shares the format with DEME's >> standard clump output file, or your file is simply the output of >> *WriteClumpFile*, then you can conveniently load clump positions and >> orientations by *ReadClumpXyzFromCsv *and *ReadClumpQuatFromCsv *(examples >> are in GRCPrep_Part1 and 2). Note that currently, sphere radius cannot be >> read from standard clump output files since it's part of the clump template >> information thus not in the clump output. >> >> Thank you, >> Ruochun >> >> On Monday, May 20, 2024 at 12:56:56 PM UTC+8 weigan...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> Hi Everyone, >>> >>> I would like to generate a block which consists of a assembly spheres. >>> Is it possible to generate the block by other code, and then load it into >>> DEM-Engine via a file containg the informations (such as position and >>> radius) of the spheres? >>> >>> Thank you, >>> Weigang >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ProjectChrono" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to projectchrono+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/projectchrono/dfb7f3cd-a52f-454c-b99f-1964f28b5109n%40googlegroups.com.
