Application of the discrete element method to model cohesive materials
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One way to include fracture and fragmentation when analyzing loaded mechanical systems is based on the DEM, [2], [3]. In recent years this approach was adopted in geomechanics and civil engineering to model fracture in elastic-brittle materials, e.g. [1] and [5]. Using this approach, the material is considered as being fully discontinuous and made up by assembling and bonding adjacent discrete elements. The particle bonds are represented by force laws and can sustain only a specified stress until failure.
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