Hi Chiara, What do you mean by "uniformity": by plotting the distribution of contact orientations, you can see if your sample is more or less isotropic but you cannot check like that if the sample is homogeneous. If it is this last point you want to check you would need to plot for instance the contact density, or the mean contact force value with respect to the distance from the sample centre.
Good luck, Luc > Hi all, > > I would have a question about the uniformity of the packing in the > triaxial. > There is a nice function utils.plotDirections() which returns the > orientation of the interactions with respect to the three planes of the > global system. I was using this function at the end of the initial phase > of > the triaxial, both trying the compaction and the expansion method > alternatively. I am getting preferential directions along the vertical and > horizontal global axes. I was expecting a better solution adopting the > expansion method but apparently it does not help too much. > Did/Do you have the same problem? What would you suggest to avoid it? > > Thanks. > > Chiara > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yade-users > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yade-users > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Luc Sibille Université de Nantes - Laboratoire GeM Adresse/address: IUT de Saint Nazaire - Département de Génie-Civil 58, rue Michel-Ange - BP 420 44606 Saint-Nazaire Cedex France Tel: +33 2 40 17 81 78 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yade-users Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yade-users More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
