Examples

This section contains a number of examples detailing PFC usage.

For specific details of the PFC model components (e.g., balls, clumps, walls, and contacts), see Model Components.

• Tutorials
  • Balls in a Box
  • Clumps in a Box
  • Attributes and Properties
  • Using the CMAT
  • Generating a Bonded Assembly
  • Replicating a Particle Size Distribution
  • Inclusions in a Matrix
  • Hopper Discharge
  • Using FISH Callbacks
  • Table Tennis
  • Shallow Foundation
  • Slip on a Fault
  • Creation of a Synthetic Rock Mass (SRM) Specimen
  • FISH Contact Model
• Verification Problems
  • Measure Logic
  • Strength of a Face-Centered Cubic Array of Spheres
  • Tip-Loaded Cantilever Beam
  • Linear Contact Model: Calibrating the Normal Critical Damping Ratio
  • Hertz Contact Model: Complex Loading Paths
  • Wave Propagation in Particle Assemblies
  • Rolling Resistance Linear Contact Model: Single Ball on a Flat Surface
  • Rolling Resistance Linear Contact Model: Repose Angle
  • Adhesive Rolling Resistance Linear Contact Model: Repose Angle
  • Burger’s Contact Model: Stress Relaxation
  • Sliding Wedge
  • Spring Network Contact Model Capabilities
  • Simulating Square Permanent Magnets
  • Pull-Test for a Grouted Cable Anchor in a PFC Rigid Block Model
  • Shear Pull-Tests for a Hybrid Bolt in PFC3D
• Example Applications
  • Hopper Flow
  • Probing a Granular Specimen
  • Ribbon Blender
  • Fragmentation Analysis during a Uniaxial Compression with Crack Tracking Using Fractures
  • DFN Generation, Analysis, and Simplification
  • Rock Testing
  • Rigid Block Model of Flying Buttresses
  • Rigid Block Model of a Rockslide
  • Genesis and Testing of a Soft-Bonded Material
  • Simple Rigid Block Bonded-Block Modeling (BBM)
  • Rigid Block Model of Tunnel Excavation
  • Using the Rigid Body Spring Network Paradigm
  • Particle Inlets