Question #707278 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/707278
Status: Answered => Open Ruidong LI is still having a problem: Hi! Jan Thanks for your reply. Your answer is rigorous and helpful. > area = 2* pi*r_cyl*h_cyl/len(nodes) # cylinder surface / number of nodes ? The question mark in my comment is meant seriously. For regular grid it is probably OK. Also consider that the "boundary" nodes (bottom and top) maybe should have half force then "inner" nodes? Yes. That's a really critical problem that needed to be clarified. What confused me currently is that I found the number of nodes is not consistent with what I expected. For example, in the beginning, we defined the number of facets by the following code [1]: nw=40 # number of facets along the perimeter nh=25 # number of facets along the height nodes = [b for b in O.bodies if isinstance(b.shape, GridNode)] print(len(nodes)) If we print the number of nodes, we will get 8000 where my initial suppose is 40*26 = 1040. That indicates that the ID of nodes forming Pfacet are independent of each other. In other words, more than one node can be created at the same position. So, I am wondering if maybe it is correct to use ' confining Stress * cylinder surface / number of nodes' to represent the average force applied on each node? We don't need to classify the top and bottom nodes anymore as the force applied on nodes is the same. It is identical to obtaining the node force by calculating the force applied on each Pfacet and distributing it into three nodes. [1] https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/681410 -- You received this question notification because your team yade-users is an answer contact for Yade. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yade-users Post to : yade-users@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yade-users More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp