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[Hongyang Alex Cheng <question275973@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #275973 on Yade changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/275973

    Status: Open => Answered

Hongyang Alex Cheng proposed the following answer:
HI,

It looks you are doing FEM/DEM modeling pioneered by Munjiza‘s (FEs within
DEM). I am guessing the so-called PFacet element in Yade [1] would work in
this case, but It seems you have to wait until it is ready in trunk.

[1]
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281203746_Geotextiles_and_Geomembranes

Cheers,
Alex

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 4:07 AM, MikeZhao <
question275973@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Question #275973 on Yade changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/275973
>
> MikeZhao gave more information on the question:
> Actually I just tried to use the simplest example to describe the
> problem I've encountered:
>
> I am working on FEM-DEM coupling now, and I want to use DEM to build a
> contact detector for different FE meshes. So I first transferred
> elements of FEM into utils.tetraPoly in DEM. To make calculation more
> efficient, I made tetraPoly that belongs to the same FE mesh a clump.
> And I need to update the positions of those tetraPoly in DEM using the
> positions of FEM's elements, so I need to change the positions of those
> tetraPoly mannually..
>
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