Sure, you are totally right Vaclav! I'll try to do something with some graphs for CohesiveFrictionalPM asap.
Cheers Luc 2010/10/7 Václav Šmilauer <[email protected]> > Hi fellows, > > I received the following mail yesterday from a geological engineer: > > > I recently found your software Yade on the internet, > > which really arouse my interest. I downloaded it and > > tried to learn it, but encountered with some questions, > > and the most inconvenience is that there is no detailed > > introduction about those constitutive laws used in Yade, > > and I am wondering that if you could show me exactly what > > kind of laws they are, the equations and detailed instruction > > of them would help me to recogonize them and understand how > > they work, and I would really appreciate that. > > What would you reply to such a question? (seriously) > > Looking at the documentation at > https://www.yade-dem.org/sphinx/yade.wrapper.html#lawfunctor you might see > that its state is miserable. Therefore I would like to ask authors of the > respective contact laws to write documentation on them; it should mention > at least: > > 1. The mathematical formulation of the model, or a reference to a paper > which was _rigorously_ followed. Most models do not entail more than 10-20 > formulas and it is not such a big pain to write them. > 2. For what kind of materials is the model supposed to be used. > 3. Its limitations such as instabilities in corner cases, how well was it > tested. > > Do not think documentation is unimportant. Since there are people outside > academia using Yade (and there will be more of them in short time), then > documentation is plain necessity. If there is agreement, I can add an > "experimental" (or "undoc" or ...) feature (disabled by default), which > would make compile stuff that is not documented or tested properly. > > I am not excluding myself, the concrete law is not much documented either. > > Please help Yade. > > Cheers, v > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yade-dev > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yade-dev > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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