Three-dimensional particle shape acquisition and use of shape library

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Three-dimensionalparticleshapeacquisitionanduseofshapelibrary

forDEMandFEM/DEMsimulation

John-PaulLathama,*,AntonioMunjizab,XavierGarciaa,JianshengXianga,RomainGuisesa

aEarthScienceandEngineering,ImperialCollege,SouthKensington,LondonSW72AZ,UnitedKingdombDepartmentofEngineering,QueenMaryLondonUniversity,MileEnd,LondonE14NS,UnitedKingdom

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Articlehistory:Received20December2007Accepted30May2008Availableonline26July2008

Keywords:DiscreteelementmodellingSimulationMineralprocessingGravityconcentrationSortingmethodsabstract

Numericalsimulationthatwillcapturethecomplexbehaviourofrockfragmentsystems,e.g.,inminingandcivilengineering,requiresboththecomputationalmechanicscapabilitytomodelparticleinterac-tionsbetweencomplexshapesandanassociatedmeanstorepresentthekindofarbitraryorangulargeometryrelevanttoproblemsinvolvingrockfragments.Thispaperisconcernedlesswiththemodellingandmorewiththerepresentation.Here,wefocusonrepresentationgearedto‘softcontact’modellingusingeithercombinedfinite-discreteelement(FEM/DEM)methods,ornon-sphericalDEMmethodssuchasmulti-sphereapproximationsofirregulargeometry.3Dlaserranging(LADAR)isusedtocaptureaston-ishinglyrealisticrockaggregategeometries.Wereportontheworkflowprocedurestogeneratecompu-tationallymeshedvirtualparticlesformodelling.ThedesignofashapelibraryandasuggestedprocedureforselectingvirtualparticlesforinputtoFEM/DEMorDEMmodelsisdiscussedtogetherwiththeuseofinertiamomentsforshapedescriptors.Useoftheshapelibraryforshapedescriptoranalysisisalsoillus-trated.DEMsimulationsofpackingusingirregularparticlesfromtheshapelibraryarepresented.Ó2008ElsevierLtd.Allrightsreserved.

1.Introduction

Ourdevelopmentanduseofavirtualgeoscienceworkbench

(VGW)forthestudyofparticulatesystemshasfocussedinitially

onlengthscalessimilartorockaggregates,i.e.,hand-sizedparti-

cleswhoseinteractionsaredominatedbygravityforces.Thework

ishowever,genericandhaswiderelevance,e.g.,topowdertech-

nologies.Theimportanceoftheinfluenceofparticleshapeinmin-

ing,e.g.,draw-pointandhopperhang-ups,mineralprocessing,civil

engineeringandthebehaviourofbituminous-andcementitious-

boundgeomaterialshascontributedtothedevelopmentanduse

ofDEMandFEM/DEMsimulationtechniquesthatcanhandleirreg-

ularparticleshapeinteractions(e.g.,ClearyandSawley,2002;Fa-

vieretal.,1999;Wangetal.,2007).

Themodellingofinteractionsbetweennon-rigidirregularparti-

clesusingDEMadoptsessentiallytwodifferenttypesofapproach.

Thefirstarethosethatinordertocomputenormalandtangential

contactforcesrelyonawelldefinedparametricformforthecurva-

turesandoverlapvolumesofthecolliding/contactingparticlessuch

asmultisphere,ellipsoidalandsuperquadricmodels.Anintriguing

andpowerfulrecentdevelopmenthasbeentheworkofGarboczi(2002)onsphericalharmonicsrepresentationofnatural

irregularparticlesurfaces.Themostwidelyemployedmodelling

approachofthisDEMtypeistoclumporoverlapspherestocreate

irregulargenerallybumpyorcurvedcompositeparticles(e.g.,Lim

andMcDowell,2005;Favieretal.,1999,2001;Priceetal.,2007).

Such‘‘super-particle”modelsallowtheretentionofthesimplicity

ofsphere-basedDEMmethodsforcomputingcontactforceinterac-

tions,andwheretangentialcontactforceisimplemented,aCou-

lombfrictioncriterionisusuallyapplied.Anotherapproachisto

treattheparticlesascomplexpolyhedramadeupoftetrahedralele-

ments,seeforexamplethecombinedFEM/DEMmethodofMunjiza

(2004)andirregularbodycollisionsolutionsofMunjizaandAn-

drews(2000),Munjizaetal.(2003),whichemployadistributed

contactforceandpenaltyfunctionmethodforthecomputedover-

lapvolumeinvolvingmanytetrahedralnodesineachcollisioncal-

culation.Therealismofearlyresultswithirregularshapedunits

andcubes(LathamandMunjiza2004),suggestssuchFEM/DEM

methodscanhandletheinteractionsbetweencomplex-shapedpar-

ticleswithreasonableaccuracywhichhasencouragedresearchers

toapplyMunjiza’sapproach(e.g.,PolojarviandTuhkuri,2007)

andcontinuetoseekmorerobust3DFEM/DEMmethods.

Anotherreasonformodellingrealisticshapeistocapturethe

breakagebehaviourofgranularmaterialsmorerealistically,irreg-

ulargeometrieswithsharpedgesbeingmuchmoresusceptibleto

breakagethanroundedobjects.Insimulatinggranularcrushingin

pseudo-staticloadingorinimpactsorflowsinvolvingmultiple

0892-6875/$-seefrontmatterÓ2008ElsevierLtd.Allrightsreserved.

doi:10.1016/j.mineng.2008.05.015*Correspondingauthor.Tel.:+4402075947327.E-mailaddresses:j.p.latham@imperial.ac.uk(J.-P.Latham),a.munjiza@qmul.a-c.uk(A.Munjiza),x.garcia06@imperial.ac.uk(X.Garcia),j.xiang@imperial.ac.uk(J.Xiang),r.guises@imperial.ac.uk(R.

Guises).MineralsEngineering21(2008)797–805

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