Re: [Yade-users] [Question #452513]: overlapping particle/particle and particle/wall

2017-02-08 Thread Michael Kolbeck
Question #452513 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/452513 Status: Answered => Solved Michael Kolbeck confirmed that the question is solved: thank all of you! @Jerome: I'll try playing around with the particle stiffness @Bruno: You are right. Defined contact

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #452513]: overlapping particle/particle and particle/wall

2017-02-08 Thread Bruno Chareyre
Question #452513 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/452513 Bruno Chareyre proposed the following answer: >"is there a way to minimize the overlap?" You can decrease confining pressure or increase material stiffness. The result will be the same both ways: less overlap,

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #452513]: overlapping particle/particle and particle/wall

2017-02-08 Thread Bruno Chareyre
Question #452513 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/452513 Bruno Chareyre proposed the following answer: "decrease confining pressure" should be "decrease gravitational acceleration" in this particular case. I just realized. B -- You received this question

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #452513]: overlapping particle/particle and particle/wall

2017-02-08 Thread Jérôme Duriez
Question #452513 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/452513 Status: Open => Answered Jérôme Duriez proposed the following answer: In fact, there actually is some kind of DEM (Non Smooth Contact Dynamics) which sticks to the rigid bodies point of view, and do not use

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #452513]: overlapping particle/particle and particle/wall

2017-02-08 Thread Michael Kolbeck
Question #452513 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/452513 Status: Answered => Open Michael Kolbeck is still having a problem: Hi Jan, thank you for your answer. I see that using DEM, there is no way to avoid overlap. But is there a way to minimize the overlap?

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #452513]: overlapping particle/particle and particle/wall

2017-02-08 Thread Jan Stránský
Question #452513 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/452513 Status: Open => Answered Jan Stránský proposed the following answer: Hi Michael, I'm new with Yade Welcome :-) the basic idea of DEM is that inter-particle forces depends on mutual overlap (linearly in

[Yade-users] [Question #452513]: overlapping particle/particle and particle/wall

2017-02-08 Thread Michael Kolbeck
New question #452513 on Yade: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/452513 Hello everyone, I'm new with Yade and I would appreciate some help. I need to create a random dense packing in a cylinder. The radii of the spheres should have a normal distribution around a given value.