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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Probabilistic Calibration of a Discrete Particle Model

Zhang, Yanbei 2010 August 1900 (has links)
A discrete element model (DEM) capable of reproducing the mechanistic behavior of a triaxial compressive test performed on a Vosges sandstone specimen is presented considering similar experimental testing conditions and densely packed spherical elements with low lock-in stress. The main aim of this paper is to illustrate the calibration process of the model‟s micro-parameters when obtained from the experimental meso-parameters measured in the lab. For this purpose, a probabilistic inverse method is introduced to fully define the micro-parameters of the particle models through a joint probability density function, which is conditioned on the experimental observations obtained during a series of tests performed at the L3S-R France. The DEM captures successfully some of the rock mechanical behavior features, including the global stress-strain and failure mechanisms. Results include a detailed parametric analysis consisting of varying each DEM parameter at the time and measuring the model response on the strain-stress domain. First order statistics on probabilistic results show the adequacy of the model to capture the experimental data, including a measure of the DEM performance for different parameter combinations. Also, joint probability density functions and cross-correlations among the micro-parameters are presented.

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