A review of particle shape effects on material properties for various engineering applications: from macro to nanoscale

U Ulusoy - Minerals, 2023 - mdpi.com
It is well known that most particle technology studies attempting to predict secondary
properties based on primary properties such as size and shape begin with particle …

Yade documentation

V Smilauer, V Angelidakis, E Catalano, R Caulk… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Yade is an extensible open-source framework for discrete numerical models, focused on the
Discrete Element Method. The computation parts are written in c++ using a flexible object …

A systematic review of artificial intelligence public datasets for railway applications

MJ Pappaterra, F Flammini, V Vittorini, N Bešinović - Infrastructures, 2021 - mdpi.com
The aim of this paper is to review existing publicly available and open artificial intelligence
(AI) oriented datasets in different domains and subdomains of the railway sector. The …

Advanced DEM simulation on powder mixing for ellipsoidal particles in an industrial mixer

Y Mori, M Sakai - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
Tons of products are facilitated through powder mixing processes. The quality of the final
products is highly influenced by the mixing state. Hence, detailed information about the …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of the effects and efficiency of vertical and side tamping methods for ballasted railway tracks

M Przybyłowicz, M Sysyn, U Gerber… - … and Building Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
The relatively high maintenance costs of the ballast track are related to the short lifecycle of
the ballast layer. The current vertical ballast tamping technology (eg, Plasser & Theurer …

Mechanism of sleeper–ballast dynamic impact and residual settlements accumulation in zones with unsupported sleepers

M Sysyn, M Przybylowicz, O Nabochenko, J Liu - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Unsupported sleepers or void zones in ballasted tracks are one of the most recent and
frequent track failures. The void failures have the property of intensive development that …

Analysis of particle corner-breakage effect on pile penetration in coral sand: model tests and DEM simulations

Y Peng, ZY Yin, X Ding - Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
Although particle corner breakage has been proved to be the primary mode of particle
breakage for coral sand, current studies of pile penetration have continued to present the …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental and DEM investigation of axially-loaded behaviours of IWP-based structures

H Fu, S Kaewunruen - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
The Schoen I-graph-wrapped package (IWP) structures are recognized as one of the best
promising cellular structures because of their high specific mechanical properties and …

颗粒形状对堆石料力学特性影响的离散元分析.

王蕴嘉, 宋二祥, 张千里 - … Mechanics/Gongcheng Lixue, 2022 - search.ebscohost.com
颗粒形状是影响堆石料力学特性的重要因素, 值得深入研究. 以爆破堆石料为研究对象,
采用离散元软件PFC3D 根据真实颗粒形状建立不同球度的单颗粒模型. 分别生成不破碎和可 …

Real-time evaluation of mechanical qualities of ballast bed in railway tamping maintenance

L Gao, S Shi, Y Zhong, M Xu, Y Xiao - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Real-time evaluation of the mechanical qualities of ballast beds is essential for improving
tamping effort in railway maintenance. This study aims at evaluating the mechanical …