> My personnal feeling is that your problem is calibration of the > parameters of your numerical discrete model towards the experiments > you want to simulate. > Yes.
> I'd recommand you first to have in mind that what is called Young > Modulus in Yade has NOTHING to do with a Young Modulus in continuum > mechanics... I dared to upper case "NOTHING" since the equations, and > the roles in these equations of these two "Young Modulus", have > nothing in common, even if correlations can be deduced.. I wouldn't be > able to answer you why it is called "Young modulus", then... It's called "Young" modulus because it defines the Young's modulus of the packing (modulo a constant factor)... Benoit, see https://www.yade-dem.org/doc/yade.wrapper.html#yade.wrapper.Ip2_FrictMat_FrictMat_FrictPhys for equations inside. Instead of justifying the equations of this specific functor, I'd rather ask: what contact behaviour do you want to simulate? Bruno _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yade-users Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yade-users More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

