...Y T Feng; Ignacio G. Tejada; Rafael Jimenez Purpose The purpose of this paper is to show that there are some underlying principles of granular media that can be derived from statistical mechanics and that could be useful when considered in the context of computer simulations. Design/methodology...

...RICARDO DOBRY; AND TANG‐TAT NG A general overview is presented on applications of the discrete element method (DEM) to granular media. A literature survey is performed of static and dynamic simulations using random arrays of compliant particles, and forty‐two references published mostly in the last...