Fundamentals of Discrete Element Methods for Rock Engineering: Theory and Application

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Fundamentals of Discrete Element Methods for Rock Engineering: Theory and Applications

Fundamentals of Discrete Element Methods for Rock Engineering: Theory and Applications
Publisher: Elsevier Publishing Company | Pages: 562 | January 15, 2007 | ISBN 0-444-82937-7 | PDF | 23 MB

“ Key Features

# Presents the fundamental concepts of the discrete models for fractured rocks, including constitutive models of rock fractures and rock masses for stress, deformation and fluid flow
# Provides a comprehensive presentation on discrete element methods, including distinct elements, discontinuous deformation analysis, discrete fracture networks, particle mechanics and Cosserat representation of granular media
# Features constitutive models of rock fractures and fracture system characterization methods detaiing their significant impacts on the performance and uncertainty of the DEM models
Description

This book presents some fundamental concepts behind the basic theories and tools of discrete element methods (DEM), its historical development, and its wide scope of applications in geology, geophysics and rock engineering. Unlike almost all books available on the general subject of DEM, this book includes coverage of both explicit and implicit DEM approaches, namely the Distinct Element Methods and Discontinuous Deformation Analysis (DDA) for both rigid and deformable blocks and particle systems, and also the Discrete Fracture Network (DFN) approach for fluid flow and solute transport simulations. The latter is actually also a discrete approach of importance for rock mechanics and rock engineering. In addition, brief introductions to some alternative approaches are also provided, such as percolation theory and Cosserat micromechanics equivalence to particle systems, which often appear hand-in-hand with the DEM in the literature. Fundamentals of the particle mechanics approach using DEM for granular media is also presented.

Readership

Researchers and advanced undergraduate and graduate students with an emphasis in rock mechanics, rock physics, civil engineering, engineering geology, environmental engineering, petroleum engineering, and nuclear waste management.
Contents

Foreword.
Preface.
1. Introduction. Part 1: Fundamentals. 2. Governing equations for motion and deformation of block systems and heat transfer. 3. Constitutive models of rock fractures and rock masses - the basics. 4. Fluid flow and coupled hydro-mechanical behaviour of rock fractures. Part 2: Fracture System Characterization and Block Model Construction. 5. Basics of characterization of fracture systems - field mapping and stochastic simulations. 6. Basics of combinatorial topology for block system representation. 7. Numerical techniques for block system construction. Part 3: DEM approaches. 8. Explicit discrete element method for block systems – the distinct element method. 9. Implicit Discrete Element Method for block systems – discontinuous deformation analysis (DDA). 10. Discrete Fracture Network (DFN) method. 11. Discrete Element Methods for granular materials. Part 4: Application Studies. 12. Case studies of Discrete Element Methods in geology, geophysics and rock engineering. Appendix. Subject Index.
Author Information

By Lanru Jing, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden; and Ove Stephansson, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Note from Nautilus87:
This book introduces the reader to Discrete Element Method. The Discrete element method was developed in 1971 by Prof. Peter A. Cundall for Modelling the soil and rock behavior . Its main advantage is that it is based on discontinuum mechanics rather than continuum mechanics (Fem) . It has the ability to simulate cyclic triaxial tests, slope stability , using anisotropic conditions,crack growth, discontinuity in rock and soil . It is mainly implemented in pfc2d,pfc3d,Ball,trubal,UBEC,3dec and other software and code .
It can model crack growth discontinuity , particle behavior , partcle shape which Finite Element Method cannot accomplish! It is used by geotechnical experts or geomechanic's experts for tunnel design, underground construction analysis and modelling complex behavior of soil .

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