Re: [Yade-users] [Question #694837]: How to increase the fill factor?

2021-01-11 Thread Milly Ro
Question #694837 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/694837 Status: Answered => Solved Milly Ro confirmed that the question is solved: Thanks Robert Caulk, that solved my question. -- You received this question notification because your team yade-users is an

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #694837]: How to increase the fill factor?

2021-01-11 Thread Milly Ro
Question #694837 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/694837 Milly Ro posted a new comment: Hi Robert, that helps me a lot! Best wishes, Milly -- You received this question notification because your team yade-users is an answer contact for Yade.

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #694837]: How to increase the fill factor?

2021-01-11 Thread Robert Caulk
Question #694837 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/694837 Robert Caulk posted a new comment: Useful documentation [1] [1] https://yade-dem.org/doc/formulation.html#creating-interaction- between-particles -- You received this question notification because your team

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #694837]: How to increase the fill factor?

2021-01-11 Thread Robert Caulk
Question #694837 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/694837 Robert Caulk proposed the following answer: >I think I did not understand the part for avoiding spheres intersection. The contact force estimation in Yade is based on the "intersection" of spheres. If they do

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #694837]: How to increase the fill factor?

2021-01-08 Thread Milly Ro
Question #694837 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/694837 Milly Ro posted a new comment: Hello Jerome, thank you for the answer. I think I did not understand the part for avoiding spheres intersection. Could you please explain it more detailed, because I am new in

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #694837]: How to increase the fill factor?

2021-01-08 Thread Jérôme Duriez
Question #694837 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/694837 Jérôme Duriez proposed the following answer: Hi, For avoiding spheres intersection, you have to stop using YADE right away and switch to a contact dynamics code, since interpenetration is at the root of (forces

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #694837]: How to increase the fill factor?

2021-01-08 Thread Milly Ro
Question #694837 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/694837 Milly Ro posted a new comment: There is an update: I have just discovered, that more than half of the spheres intersect with each other after applying gravity. This of course greatly affects the packing density

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #694837]: How to increase the fill factor?

2021-01-08 Thread Milly Ro
Question #694837 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/694837 Milly Ro posted a new comment: Hello Robert, thank you for your reply. As I said I use my own particle distribution and 'r.txt' and 'cdf.txt' give the values of radii and cumultative distribution function (cdf)

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #694837]: How to increase the fill factor?

2021-01-08 Thread Robert Caulk
Question #694837 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/694837 Status: Open => Answered Robert Caulk proposed the following answer: What are 'r.txt' and 'cdf.txt?' Please review [1]. The only ways to decrease the porosity of your packing (I think that is what you are

[Yade-users] [Question #694837]: How to increase the fill factor?

2021-01-08 Thread Milly Ro
New question #694837 on Yade: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/694837 Hello, I want to pack spheres in a box and then to apply gravity. For this I use my own particle distribution. My question is how can I increase the fill factor? My ideas were to increase the dimension of the box