{"title":"The effect of particle shape on rockfall events","authors":"R. Shiyake, D. Krengel, M. Kikumoto","doi":"10.23967/wccm-apcom.2022.112","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":". The effects of rock shape and initial orientation on the rockfall phenomena are studied using a two-dimensional polygonal discrete element method (DEM). In the simulation, rock particles with the same mass but different shapes are dropped from the same height onto a straight slope to investigate the variations in both translational and rotational kinetic energies and the runout distance. Parametric studies under varied angularity and aspect ratio of the rock revealed a significant effect of rock shape and initial orientation on the runout distance.","PeriodicalId":429847,"journal":{"name":"15th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM-XV) and 8th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics (APCOM-VIII)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"15th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM-XV) and 8th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics (APCOM-VIII)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.23967/wccm-apcom.2022.112","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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. The effects of rock shape and initial orientation on the rockfall phenomena are studied using a two-dimensional polygonal discrete element method (DEM). In the simulation, rock particles with the same mass but different shapes are dropped from the same height onto a straight slope to investigate the variations in both translational and rotational kinetic energies and the runout distance. Parametric studies under varied angularity and aspect ratio of the rock revealed a significant effect of rock shape and initial orientation on the runout distance.