5.3 Enhancements to particle interface behavior for DEM

Product: Abaqus/Explicit  

Benefits: You can now easily specify Hertz elastic contact and JKR adhesive behavior between particles for DEM analyses.

Description: For DEM analyses involving a mixture of multiple species of particles with randomly varying sizes, it is now easy to specify Hertz-type normal elastic contact between the particles. The Johnson-Kendall-Roberts adhesive model can now be specified between contacting particles to model adhesion between particles.

References:

Abaqus Analysis User's Guide

Abaqus Keywords Reference Guide