DEM SIMULATION OF BALLAST OEDOMETRIC TEST
Abstract eng: The granular nature of the railway ballast in connection with fast dynamic loading makes it an ideal application of the Discrete Element Method (DEM). The contribution employs DEM to simulate the ballast behavior in large oedometric test. Ballast grains are represented by convex polyhedral particles with shape randomly generated via Voronoi tessellation. A novel algorithm to compute repulsive contact force based on intersecting volume of polyhedrons is presented. Crushing of grains is included via splitting the particles into smaller polyhedrons when some stress-based criterion is fulfilled.
Publisher:
Brno University of Technology- Institute of Solid Mechanics, Mechatronics and Biomechanics
Conference Title:
Conference Title:
Engineering Mechanics 2014
Conference Venue:
Svratka (CZ)
Conference Dates:
12/05/2014 - 15/05/2014
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