Asphalt mixtures are commonly used in pavement engineering, especially for highway construction. The mechanism exploration and analysis of distress the main challenges researchers industry managers. Thereby, it is important to understand their properties interaction mechanisms asphalt mixtures. It difficult conduct some sophisticated or microscale tests laboratory, numerical simulation virtual ...

It has recently been reported that the equal load sharing fiber bundle model predicts rate of change elastic energy stored in reaches its maximum before catastrophic failure occurs, making it a possible predictor for imminent collapse. The does not contain central mechanisms often play an important role processes, such as localization. Thus, there is obvious question whether similar phenomenon ...

With progress in mineral processing technologies, particle size classification equipment has also been changed to satisfy the needs of modern plants. Accordingly, design, manufacturing and utilizing of banana screens in mineral processing plants have led to increased screening efficiency at industrial scale. Banana screen is an important invention occurred in past decade which increases screeni...

In some natural events such as soil failure the deformations are localized in narrow restrictions, which are called shear bands. This event which is a fundamental phenomenon in granular material, has been widely investigated during recent decades within expensive experimental tests and also some numerical simulations. Most of previously used numerical methods are based on continuum theories des...

Discrete particle simulations are widely used to study large–scale particulate flows in complex geometries where particle–particle and particle–fluid interactions require an adequate representation but the computational cost has to be kept low. In this work, we present a novel coupling approach for such simulations. A lattice Boltzmann formulation of the generalized Navier–Stokes equations is u...