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[Bruno Chareyre <bruno.chareyre@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting!

I'm not sure you need to save/load, but perhaps I missed the point.
Did you think about using clumps for the groups of element not traversed 
by a joint plane?
For modified normal, what is your pane, writing a new 
Ig2_Sphere_Sphere_XXX which would test if spheres share a common plane 
before assigning normal? I'm not sure what is the best way here.
Bruno


luc scholtes a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> Before any commit, I would like to have your opinion on what I did for 
> the moment concerning my project (jointed rock mass simulation). This 
> is really basic stuff for the moment due to my very poor knowledge in 
> programming, but I hope you guys could give me some advices. Please 
> have a look if you can.
> I did not attach all the files needed to run a simulation due to a 
> previous sending that have never arrived, but do not hesitate to ask 
> for them.  I attached an animated gif as a very simple illustration too.
> Here is the idea:
>
> + For the moment, the JointedRockPM is based on the RockPM. The 
> formulation is exactly the same except that discontinuities (joints) 
> can be taken into account in the computation. The near future will be 
> a specific law for spheres on joint to allow a smoother behavior (a 
> modification of the interacting geometry would be the first step -> 
> probably some questions for you guys), and probably a more complete 
> law for the cohesive behaviour with shear and moment cohesion (-> 
> probably some more questions here too).
> + to take into account joints, I developed a procedure (maybe not very 
> efficient) based on python scripting (IdentificationSpheresOnJoint.
> py and ImportJointedRockMass.py that I can send you if you want). This 
> can appear a bit complicated for the given illustration, but combining 
> this with some imports from a CAD would give some interesting stuffs 
> (import of complete Discrete Fracture Network for example...)
>   - first, given a rock (or whatever you want ndlr) sample geometry, 
> and a "joints set" that cut through this sample (defined by facets), 
> spheres belonging to each side of the joints surface are identified 
> with the joint normal and the side to which they belong as attributes. 
> An ascii files is then saved through a modified function of the 
> sphereToFile() function defined in utils.py (oncemore, I can give you 
> the concerned file if you want).
>   - second, the jointed rock mass is loaded from this ascii files 
> through the asciiJointedRockPM() and the simulation can start. Here is 
> still some weird coding for the import (ImportjointedRockMass.py), but 
> it works. I choose this saving/loading procedure to have a reset of 
> the simulation without the presence of the joints (which would give 
> some unappropriate behavior). Maybe this can be done on the same 
> simulation, but I don't know...
>
> Oncemore, this is just a base. Every comments are welcome (...)