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How to get cumulative Archard wear graphics?

Hello everyone,

I would like to know about your experience plotting comulative Archard wear graphics. I have succesfully calibrate my iron ore sample from a peruvian mining. My thesis is realted to the comparison of the wear over the chute liners and the receiving belt from two solutions. In that sense, I have completed the next steps:

First: I have imported the actual chute solution, it is located next to the first crusher zone.

Second: It is a 100 seconds simulation with surface energy p-p, JKR-V2 and Archard wear model. The feed rate is 988 kg/s with a 4.2m/s belt speed.

Third: The next figure correspond to Archard wear coloring texture with just a prototype displayed.

Fourth: The last figura correspond to the Archard wear cumulative histogram over the receiving belt.

So, my question remains over how can I get visual results like the down below. It is necessary high programming skills? Can I get those graphics with the analyst? Do you know about a base tutorial to start with .dll file extensions? What do you recommend?

I will really appreaciate your help and your time.

Un cordial saludo para toda la comunidad de ALTAIR - EDEM

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Ignacio Diez Alonso (Nacho)

Hola José

If what you want is to show the wear in an object as in the image shown below, no API is required for this post-processing. With the smaller elements in a finer mesh you can post-process the wear on your equipment like in this image from the Analyst directly. This would be done in the Analyst, under the display and geometries section where you can set the coloring options for your geometries.

The only reason for what the API would be used is to create your own wear model for example. Even the latest wear model that we have made available to our users (Impact Wear which you can see on the right side of the image), does not need you to do any programming as we have made available the wear API model for our users, so they just need to introduce it into their simulation.

So no need to do any programming for this. I hope that this clarifies your question but please let me know if there is anything that you still would like to ask about or that it has not been covered.

Un saludo

Ignacio

P.S. Lima looks incredible

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Ignacio Diez Alonso (Nacho)

Hello José

If I understood correctly, what you are looking for is to improve your wear color map in your geometry. For this what you need is to reduce the mesh size of your geometry in EDEM and based on the image from your third stage you can see that the mesh elements are pretty large (you can also see this by displaying this geometry as a mesh in the creator or analyst). The mesh size can be refined or reduced in another software which deals with meshing such as Hypermesh or even potentially in a CAD software you may have some options to define this before exporting the geometry. Alternatively there are some options that you can modify and try with when importing your geometry into EDEM. However, I am afraid that you will need to run the simulation again with the new mesh for the wear to be calculated on new elements and display the color map accordingly. I hope that you find this useful.

Kind regards y un saludo

Ignacio

José Figueroa

Hola Ignacio

Thanks a lot for your help. Although the mesh was a variable I didn't take into account, I am processing the file with the resized mesh again.

However, my question intended to know how to show the total wear over an object in a single graphic. At the moment, I know that the EDEM API is an alternative. As I have no experience programming, what other reasonable alternatives exist? It is mandatory to learn programming as a short solution?

Muy cordialmente,

José Figueroa

Lima, Perú

PD: I leave you a postal from Lima

Ignacio Diez Alonso (Nacho)

Hola José

So no need to do any programming for this. I hope that this clarifies your question but please let me know if there is anything that you still would like to ask about or that it has not been covered.

Un saludo

Ignacio

P.S. Lima looks incredible

José Figueroa

Hola José

If what you want is to show the wear in an object as in the image shown below, no API is required for this post-processing. With the smaller elements in a finer mesh you can post-process the wear on your equipment like in this image from the Analyst directly. This would be done in the Analyst, under the display and geometries section where you can set the coloring options for your geometries.

The only reason for what the API would be used is to create your own wear model for example. Even the latest wear model that we have made available to our users (Impact Wear which you can see on the right side of the image), does not need you to do any programming as we have made available the wear API model for our users, so they just need to introduce it into their simulation.

So no need to do any programming for this. I hope that this clarifies your question but please let me know if there is anything that you still would like to ask about or that it has not been covered.

Un saludo

Ignacio

P.S. Lima looks incredible

Hello Ignacio,

Of course, it is exactly what I am searching. I will try again and will leave you the results, if there is no problem.

Thank you very much!

Ignacio Diez Alonso (Nacho)

No problem, if there are any further issues due not hesitate to get in touch with us. For this you can submit a request to our team for support by filling the short form in this link: https://community.altair.com/community?id=csm_get_help&sys_id=de45c412c312310015519f2974d3ae1b