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Failure of granular materials at different scales ‐ microscale approach
Author(s) -
Meier H. A.,
Kuhl E.,
Steinmann P.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
pamm
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1617-7061
DOI - 10.1002/pamm.200610180
Subject(s) - microscale chemistry , homogenization (climate) , granular material , statistical physics , materials science , computer science , mechanics , nanotechnology , physics , mathematics , composite material , biodiversity , ecology , mathematics education , biology
In recent years there has been an increase of interest in packed granular and discontinuous media. Due to the properties of such materials, a simple continuum approach is not appropriate to describe the material behavior. Breaking and forming of new contacts between grains, distinguishing for granular media, cannot be captured. We apply a computational homogenization method [6] which is based on a two scale concept to complete the task of modeling packed granular materials. (© 2006 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)