Showing papers on "Discontinuous Deformation Analysis published in 1988"

TL;DR: The distinct element method has advanced to a stage where the complex mechanical interactions of a discontinuous system can be modelled in three dimensions and an efficient data structure is utilizes which permits the rapid calculation on a personal computer of systems involving several hundred particles.

TL;DR: In this paper, a method of analysis for problems in which the deformation of the individual blocks play a significant role is presented, where the blocks are modeled as single quadrilateral elements and a constitutive model has been presented for computing the contact forces.