PFC3d Manual Contents

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PFC3D Particle Flow Code in 3 Dimensions Online Manual Table of Contents USER’S GUIDE Frontispiece Terms and Conditions Precis Table of Contents Section 1 : Introduction Section 2 : Getting Started Section 3 : Problem Solving with PFC 3D Section 4 : FISH Beginner’s Guide Section 5 : Miscellaneous Section 6 : Bibliography

COMMAND REFERENCE Frontispiece Table of Contents Section 1 : Command Reference

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FISH IN PFC 3D Frontispiece Precis Table of Contents Section 1 : FISH Beginner’s Guide Section 2 : FISH Reference Section 3 : PFC Fishtank Section 4 : AC/DC (Adaptive Continuum/DisContinuum) Logic

THEORY AND BACKGROUND Frontispiece Precis Table of Contents Section 1 : General Formulation Section 2 : Contact Models Section 3 : Implementation Issues Section 4 : Clump Logic Section 5 : General Wall Logic

OPTIONAL FEATURES Frontispiece Precis Table of Contents Section 1 : Thermal Option Section 2 : Basic Fluid Analysis Option Section 3 : User-Written C++ Code Section 4 : Parallel Processing Section 5 : User-Defined Contact Models Section 6 : Post-processing with Iv, the Itasca Viewer

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VERIFICATION PROBLEMS AND EXAMPLE APPLICATIONS Frontispiece Precis Table of Contents Tip-Loaded Cantilever Beam Energy Computations Collisions with a Particle Assembly Porosity Computations Strength of a Face-Centered Cubic Array of Uniform Rigid Spheres Verification of the Hertz-Mindlin Contact Model Relation between Restitution Coefficient and Damping Constant Angle-of-Repose Test Granular Flow from a Hopper Mine Block-Caving Process Rockfall Dynamics of a Beam-Column Structure Wave Propagation in Particle Assemblies Triaxial Test on a Face-Centered Cubic Array of Rigid Particles Experiments in Geometry with FISH Incorporation of Fluid Coupling in PFC 3D

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