The study of breakage in granulation is important from a process and from a product quality
perspective. Breakage is considered an important rate process in granulation, and plays …

Pneumatic transport of pharmaceutical tablets is very convenient, compact and greatly
reduces contamination. A potential problem, however, is the breakage of a significant …

Understanding particle attrition is vital to the optimisation of a wide range of industrial
processes. Lean phase pneumatic conveying is one such process, whereby the high energy …

Particle crushing underpins important macroscopic behaviour of granular materials such as
yielding, deformation, dilatancy, failure, mobility and packing features. The crushing …

The paper reports granular dynamics simulations of a dense spherical agglomerate
consisting of a random polydisperse system of autoadhesive particles impacting …

This paper presents the results of a comprehensive programme of experiments in which
particles were impacted under controlled conditions against solid targets. The overall aim of …

A numerical study of the micromechanics of impact of a sub-millimetre sized crystalline
agglomerate with a target wall has been carried out using granular dynamics (or discrete …

The experimental information available in the literature regarding the patterns of breakage of
agglomerate materials is scarce, particularly in dynamic loading. The primary objective of …

Impact-induced fragmentation of rock blocks is a frequent phenomenon during rockfall,
mining, geotechnical engineering. In order to obtain the fragmentation characteristics of …

A direct method is proposed to rapidly fragment bodies during impulse-based discrete
element method simulations of multiple body interactions. The approach makes use of …