New question #243909 on Yade: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/243909
Hello everyone, I am new to Yade. I have been working on FEM for quite a while but have little knowledge of DEM. There are a few nice videos of representing beams, wires, grids, with connected cylinders in the Yade/wiki/examples. I am very interested in those simulations and would like to know more, such as the physical meaning and mechanical formulation behind them. I have searched the Yade website and couldn't find too much relevant messages. I guess my question is probably too general and let me make them more specific as below. 1) If I am correct, a wire or beam is created by connecting a series of cylinders and particles. Apart from geometry, what is the difference between a cylinder and a particle? What are the interactions defined between a particle and a cylinder for a wire or a beam model in Yade? 2) What is the typical length scales for a cylinder and a particle in a wire or beam model? 3) I guess a wire or beam model has much less elements than a solid model. Is the computation time much less as well? Is a fast desktop good enough to perform the simulations shown in the examples? Can anyone shed me some light on these questions? Many thanks and best wishes, David -- You received this question notification because you are a member of yade-users, which is an answer contact for Yade. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yade-users Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yade-users More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
