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Buddhima Indraratna, Yujie Qi, Trung Ngoc Ngo, Cholachat Rujikiatkamjorn, Tim Neville, Fernanda Bessa Ferreira and Amir Shahkolahi
Railway tracks are conventionally built on compacted ballast and structural fill layers placed above the natural (subgrade) foundation. However, during train operations, track deteriorations occur progressively due to ballast degradation. The associated ...
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Buddhima Indraratna, Yujie Qi, Trung Ngoc Ngo, Cholachat Rujikiatkamjorn, Tim Neville, Fernanda Bessa Ferreira and Amir Shahkolahi
Railway tracks are conventionally built on compacted ballast and structural fill layers placed above the natural (subgrade) foundation. However, during train operations, track deteriorations occur progressively due to ballast degradation. The associated ...
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Dongdong Li, Rongyang Wang, Yingpeng Zhu, Jianneng Chen, Guofeng Zhang and Chuanyu Wu
To address the problem of a lack of accurate parameters in the discrete element simulation study of the machine-picked fresh tea leaf mechanized-sorting process, this study used machine-picked fresh tea leaves as the research object, established discrete...
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Weijian Liu, Shan Zeng and Xuegeng Chen
To promote the germination of rice panicles during the regeneration season, it is necessary to ensure a stubble height of 300?450 mm when mechanically harvesting the first-season rice. However, due to variations in the depth of the paddy soil and fluctua...
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Peizhao Zhong, Weiqing Jia, Wenwu Yang, Jianfei He, Erli Zhang, Dongyang Yu, Yuhang Xu, Jianpeng Chen, Feihu Peng, Guoxiang Zeng, Chen Zhang, Shiqi Zeng, Bo Gao, Haihai Pei and Zaiman Wang
The parameters of the discrete element simulation model for rice field soils serve as valuable data references for investigating the dynamic characteristics of the walking wheel of high-speed precision seeding machinery in paddy fields. The research spec...
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Zhihao Zhao, Mingliang Wu and Xiaohu Jiang
In agricultural engineering, the discrete element simulation of the operational structure, object of movement, and force has become a standard method of modern agricultural equipment design. The selection and development of an appropriate contact model a...
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Qimin Gao, Lei Cheng, Renbing Wang, Mingjiang Chen, Weisong Zhao, Jingjing Fu and Zhenwei Wang
The mechanical properties of tomato stalk, relevant to the harvesting and crushing of tomato vines, significantly impact its harvesting quality and efficiency. Establishing a simulation model, which accurately mirrors these properties, is foundational fo...
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Hao Wang, Yejiao Wang and Fujie Jin
The swelling-shrinkage behavior of expansive soils under climate changes will cause the crack development, which can be destructive of expansive soil slopes. This study investigated the effect of drying/wetting cycles on the stability of an expansive soi...
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Jadran Carija, Eduard Marenic, Tomislav Jarak and Mijo Nikolic
This research presents a novel approach to modeling fracture propagation using a discrete lattice element model with embedded strong discontinuities. The focus is on enhancing the linear elastic response within the model followed by propagation of fractu...
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Peng Gao, Jinguang Li, Hongyan Qi, Xuanting Liu and Yunhai Ma
This work proves the feasibility and effectiveness of upcutting belt motion to reduce the draught resistance of subsoilers, which is also a reference and experience for the optimization and modification of other soil-engaging components.
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Wenhang Liu, Qiang Su, Mei Fang, Jianchao Zhang, Wenjie Zhang and Zhihong Yu
Aiming at the lack of a precise discrete element model in the simulation analysis of corn straw crushing, this paper established bond models with different structure and particle models with different properties of corn straw based on Hertz-Mindlin with ...
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Dong Yan, Weigang Deng, Shengshi Xie, Chenglong Liu, Zhiqi Ren, Haohao Zhao, Yansong Cai and Zexin Zhao
To study the influence law of the overburden rotating plate mechanism on the fragmentation and separation of potato soil agglomerates, a single-factor test and a response surface test simulation analysis of the soil fragmentation process were conducted i...
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Ghulam Kibriya, Ákos Orosz, János Botzheim and Katalin Bagi
This study focuses on an old but still unresolved problem of automatically calibrating the constitutive parameters of discrete element models. Instead of the troublesome and time-consuming manual trial-and-error method, which is typical today, the author...
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Ali Khosravani, Jacky M. A. Desbiolles, John M. Fielke, Mustafa Ucgul and Chris Saunders
There is a rising interest amongst Australian farmers to use disc seeders due to their ability to operate in high residue conditions and at higher speeds, commonly in the range of 12 to 15 km h-1. This paper reports on developing an analytical and discre...
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Long Zhou, Qiu Dong, Jianqun Yu, Yang Wang, Yulong Chen, Mingwei Li, Wenjun Wang, Yajun Yu and Jun Yuan
An appropriate contact mechanics model and parameters are key to achieving accurate results in discrete element analyzis. This is necessary to predict the process of contact collision between the soil and maize seed during deposition. In this paper, the ...
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Heng Zhang, Zhentuo Wen, Yaya Chen, Junxiao Liu, Hongxin Liu, Zhifu Zhang and Xirui Zhang
This paper focuses on obtaining fundamental data for optimizing the design of intelligent equipment for cutting natural rubber and its key components. It uses natural rubber bark as the research subject and employs specific experimental apparatus to meas...
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Lipengcheng Wan, Yonglei Li, Jinyu Song, Xiang Ma, Xiangqian Dong, Chao Zhang and Jiannong Song
The vibration response of soil is a key property in the field of agricultural soil tillage. Vibration components of tillage machinery are generally used to reduce tillage resistance and improve work efficiency, and the pressure variation under low-freque...
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Yi Zeng, Chaopeng Chen, Wei Quan, Shuangpeng Xie, Fanggang Shi, Zitao Ma and Mingliang Wu
Existing calibration methods for contact parameters of soil discrete elements are primarily based on a single physical property of soil (e.g., natural accumulation angle and shear characteristics). To solve this limitation, a calibration method based on ...
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Yao Hu, Wei Xiang, Yiping Duan, Bo Yan, Lan Ma, Jiajie Liu and Jiangnan Lyu
To obtain the physical parameters and contact parameters of ramie stalk decorticating simulation, the structural dimensions, density, moisture content, elastic modulus, and contact parameters of the ramie stalk were measured in this study based on the ph...
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Xue Long, Lu Liu and Shunying Ji
Self-excited vibrations of offshore structures interacting with sea ice, characterized by low frequency and high amplitudes, pose significant hazards to offshore wind turbines (OWTs) in cold seas. This study employs the discrete element method (DEM) with...
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