The paper presents a description of the methods used to model rock as discontinuous
media. The objective of the work is to bring to the geomechanics community recent …

Tunnels are classified as civil engineering infrastructure which serves various functions that
are primarily associated with transportation of vehicles and liquids. Their design and …

YADE‐OPEN DEM: an open‐source software using a discrete element method to simulate
granular material | Emerald Insight Books and journals Case studies Expert Briefings Open …

This paper develops an approach to model the deformation and fracture of heterogeneous
materials at different scales (including multiscale modeling) within a discrete representation …

The In Salah project (a joint venture of BP, Statoil and Sonatrach) includes a CO2
sequestration effort that has successfully injected millions of tons of CO2 into a deep saline …

An approach to implementation of models of elasticity, plasticity and fracture of
heterogeneous materials within the framework of discrete element method (DEM) is …

Results are presented from a study investigating the effect of explosive and impact loading
on geological media using the Livermore distinct element code (LDEC). LDEC was initially …

Recently a new three-dimensional fracture model has been developed in the context of the
combined finite-discrete element method. In order to provide quantitative guidance for …

In this study, numerical modeling of a large-scale decoupled underground explosion test
with 10 tons of TNT in Älvdalen, Sweden is performed by combining DEM and FEM with …

Long-term cap rock integrity represents the single most important constraint on the long-term
isolation performance of natural and engineered CO2 storage sites. CO2 influx that forms …