Discrete element modelling of railway ballast

By W. Lim, Glenn R. McDowell. 2005

227 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Civil and Structural Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

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In Civil and Structural Engineering

1. S. Lobo-guerrero
2. L. Vallejo
3. M. Lu
4. Glenn R. McDowell
5. J. Bono

In Mechanical Engineering

1. S. Lobo-guerrero
2. L. Vallejo
3. M. Lu
4. Glenn R. McDowell

Citations in the corpus

• The importance of modelling ballast particle shape in the discrete element method (2006, methodology): “... velocities and displacements (and hence new contact forces via a contact constitutive law),viaanexplicittime-steppingscheme.Detailscanbe found in the Itasca Manual [2], but for clarity key details willbeprovidedlaterinthepaper.Themethodhasbeen used successfully to model single particle crushing ”
• Discrete Element Method Analysis of Railtrack Ballast Degradation during Cyclic Loading (2006, methodology): “Thus, it is important to explore other alternatives such as numerical modeling as implemented by Suiker and de Borst [24], Lim and McDowell [ 13 ], and this study.”