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Simple Common Plane Contact Detection Algorithm For Fe/Fd Methods

Oleg Vorobiev1

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory L-206, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, CA 94550, USA

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences 2007, 2(1), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.3970/icces.2007.002.001

Abstract

Common-plane (CP) algorithm is widely used in Discrete Element Method (DEM) to model contact forces between interacting particles or blocks. A new simple contact detection algorithm is proposed to model contacts in FE/FD methods which is similar to the CP algorithm. The CP is defined as a plane separating interacting faces of FE/FD mesh instead of blocks or particles in the original CP method. The method does not require iterations. It is very robust and easy to implement both in 2D and 3D case.

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Vorobiev, O. (2007). Simple Common Plane Contact Detection Algorithm For Fe/Fd Methods. The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, 2(1), 1–6.



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