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[chiara modenese <c.modenese@xxxxxxxxx>]

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> Another note : I just realized that I probably failed to reply to some
> questions in the past, concerning the local coordinate system of contacts.
> If a local coordinate system is needed, it is handled gracefully in SCGeom,
> which IS tracking the orientation of the local coordinate system,
> independant of any incremental/total formulation. I understood this fact had
> been overlooked while reading this sentence in the doc "A special
> (mis)feature of DEM is that each contact is oriented only by two points,
> current positions of both particles (\currC_1 and \currC_2)". First, it is
> by no mean a "DEM misfeature" (see PFC3D manual), second is not even a Yade
> misfeature.
>
Good to hear this writing about the necessity of a local system at the
contact level. Bruno, is this somehow implicit in ScGeom formulation?

thanks, Chiara




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