Product: Abaqus/Explicit
Benefits: You can now easily specify Hertz elastic contact and JKR adhesive behavior between particles for DEM analyses.
Description: For DEM analyses involving a mixture of multiple species of particles with randomly varying sizes, it is now easy to specify Hertz-type normal elastic contact between the particles. The Johnson-Kendall-Roberts adhesive model can now be specified between contacting particles to model adhesion between particles.
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