ON-DEM
The Open Network on Discrete Element Method (DEM) Simulations (ON-DEM) is a COST Action (CA22132) running from October 2023 to October 2027.
The Action aims to unify knowledge and people across wide/diverse DEM communities. The Action will assess and extend what can be achieved with DEM by disseminating new developments, promoting best practice, providing simulation examples, validation experiments, common tools for data analysis, as well as training of young researchers and involving other interested parties.
The COST Action has five themes:
- tackling real (large) industrial and engineering problems;
- using physics to account for complex phenomena more realistically;
- big data and visualisation tools for better and quicker DEM analysis of results;
- normalisation and best practice;
- enhancing commercial utilisation of DEM codes.
Each of these themes is aligned to a different Working Group, addressing major current challenges related to DEM simulation.
You can read all about ON-DEM’s progress to date and ongoing activities at the ON-DEM website.
TC105 Geo-mechanics
A Technical Committee of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering to:
- promote co-operation and exchange of information about the behaviour of soil particles (clays to gravels) and the interactions among themselves and with pore fluids (air, water and other liquids)
- clarify the fundamental micro-mechanisms of macroscopic soil behaviour
