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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