Granular matter is ubiquitous in nature and is present in diverse forms in important
engineering, industrial and natural processes. Particle-based computational modelling has …

Mineral grains serve as the basic units of rocks. Understanding rock materials at the grain-
scale level allows us to unveil the underlying fundamental mechanisms, thereby facilitating …

Additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing is beginning to mature from a rapid prototyping to
an industrial production technology. However, there are still a lot of fundamental questions …

We introduce the open-source package MercuryDPM, which we have been developing over
the last few years. MercuryDPM is a code for discrete particle simulations. It simulates the …

Landslide tsunamis are complex fluid–solid coupling processes that often cause enormous
catastrophes. In this study, the smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH) and discrete element …

This study first reviewed theories of the mechanical response of structures under loading,
and the discrete element method provides a route for studying mechanical response …

It remains a challenge for discrete element method to simulate large-scale systems with
arbitrarily shaped particles. This paper presents a novel approach called Ray Tracing …

The finite element method (FEM) is commonly used for modeling continuum media, while
particle simulation methods like the so-called discrete element method (DEM) are used for …

A hierarchical multiscale coupling of the finite element method (FEM) and the discrete
element method (DEM) is proposed to model coupled thermo-mechanical behavior of …

This paper aims to propose a generalizable parameter calibration framework for discrete
element method (DEM) and to develop the refined dynamic compaction DEM (RDCD) model …