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Re: Force network

 

Hello

Do you know that you can see force networks in Yade GUI?
I just updated wiki about that. See :  
http://yade.wikia.com/wiki/Usage_details#Display_tab.

Bruno


Jerome Duriez a écrit :
> Hello. It is surely a bit late (...) to help you but I answer for 
> maybe other people who will be interested in the same thing in the future.
>     So, now there is in the latests versions of Yade an Engine (in 
> pkg/dem/Engine/StandAloneEngine/) named "ForceSnapshot" you could use 
> for save in an output file all the values of normal force of the 
> interactions present in the model. I use this output File with Matlab 
> then to draw such force networks (spheres of the model with a more or 
> less big line between the spheres in contact to represent the value of 
> the normal force). My problem is 3D but I ask to Matlab to draw only 
> the interacting spheres that are both in a "cut" (that is to say that 
> for exemple their Ycenter belongs to [Y0-Dy;Y0+Dy], with Dy similar to 
> a mean diameter of your spheres, so that not too much spheres that are 
> behind each other are drawn).
>
> Kien Dang, Mr a écrit :
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>  
>>
>> One of the advantage of DEM is that we  can observed the force 
>> network as well as some other properties such as coordination number 
>> inside the material. Can anyone give me some hints to draw a force 
>> network in YADE?
>>
>>  
>>
>> Thank you so much,
>>
>>  
>>
>> Kien Dang
>>
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