A new rock slicing algorithm based on linear programming
- Submitting institution
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 232643-211258-1293
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1016/j.compgeo.2014.11.007
- Title of journal
- Computers and geotechnics
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- First page
- 12
- Volume
- 65
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- ISSN
- 0266-352X
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compgeo.2014.11.007
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Additional information
- The novel rock slicing algorithm introduced in the paper allows using a much simplified data structure for Discrete-Element simulations of rock masses so simulations are performed faster and more accurately. The method was rigorously validated against experimental field observations from literature. The algorithm has been implemented into the YADE open source code (https://gitlab.com/yade-dev/trunk/blob/master/pkg/dem/BlockGen.cpp) and used by many researchers and practitioners alike (reference in section 4.6 of YADE manual https://yade-dem.org/doc/Yade.pdf). It has been parallelised at Berkeley UoC (Gardner et al, 2017) and implemented into another popular open source: SparkRocks (https://github.com/cb-geo/spark-rocks). The work led to €2.4 million EU grant ‘Hercules’, https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/778360.
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- Non-English
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