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[Janek Kozicki <question252675@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #252675 on Yade changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/252675

Janek Kozicki posted a new comment:
> @Janek: sorry to disagree. When a bond is stretched, it stores some
> potential energy. When the bond is then broken suddenly, this potential
> energy is "lost" (dissipated) and in no way "goes to the kinetic energy and
> potential energy in other springs".

hm, you are right. When spring just "disappears" so does its
potential energy. Tracking this energy dissipation would just involve
storing its potential energy at the moment when the bond breaks.

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Janek Kozicki                               http://janek.kozicki.pl/  |

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