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Multi-particle FEM modeling on microscopic behavior of 2D particle compaction

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In this paper, the discrete random packing and various ordered packings such as tetragonal and hexagonal close packed structures generated by discrete element method and honeycomb, which is manually generated were input as the initial packing structures into the multi-particle finite element model (FEM) to study their densification during compaction, where each particle is discretized as a FEM mesh. The macro-property such as relative density and micro-properties such as local morphology, stress, coordination number and densification mechanism obtained from various initial packings are characterized and analyzed. The results show that the coupling of discrete feature in particle scale with the continuous FEM in macro-scale can effectively conquer the difficulties in traditional FEM modeling, which provides a reasonable way to reproduce the compaction process and identify the densification mechanism more accurately and realistically.

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We are grateful to the financial support of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 50974040), China New Century Excellent Talent Funds (NCET-10-0300), and Fundamental research funds for the Central Universities of China (N120202001).

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Zhang, Y.X., An, X.Z. & Zhang, Y.L. Multi-particle FEM modeling on microscopic behavior of 2D particle compaction. Appl. Phys. A 118, 1015–1021 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-014-8861-x

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