ADALS – Contribution to DEM particle simulation in agricultural machinery


AUTHOR(S)

A. Prufer, J. Englisch, M. Schultze, T. Meinel

PUBLISHER

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SOURCE

Landtechnik: Agricultural Engineering

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ABSTRACT

The Discrete Element Method (DEM) is the tool of choice for simulation of agricultural material’s processing. For this are needed granular matter models, whose generation and parametrization is costly. That fact prohibits the use of DEM within small and medium sized companies. ADALS (user friendly Discrete Element Method database for agricultural materials) fills this gap and provides these models via a simple database, for which has been designed a range of experiments for the determination of material properties and simulation verification.

KEYWORDS

Compression, dem, Rotating drum, Young's Modulus