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[Jan Stránský <question691610@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #691610 on Yade changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/691610

    Status: Open => Answered

Jan Stránský proposed the following answer:
Hello,

you cannot directly just compare young, confinement and force, they have
different units.

Size of particles plays important role.
E.g. if you have half particle size, there are 4 times more particles on the same area to transmit the pressure, so the inter-particle forces will be 4 times smaller.

Also the maximum force is IMO not a very good indicator, there could be
one "crazy" particle or interaction with much higher force then the rest
of simulation (it is dynamic simulation after all), some average or mean
or median or some distribution characteristics would IMO make more sense
than plain maximum value.

You can easily check confinement, number of interactions and (average?)
forces if the values roughly makes sense (and that you e.g. did not make
mistake in physical units interpretation).

cheers
Jan

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