TY - EJOU AU - Vorobiev, Oleg TI - Simple Common Plane Contact Detection Algorithm For Fe/Fd Methods T2 - The International Conference on Computational \& Experimental Engineering and Sciences PY - 2007 VL - 2 IS - 1 SN - 1933-2815 AB - 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. KW - DO - 10.3970/icces.2007.002.001