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Application of DEM in Coal and Agricultural Machinery

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DEM has been widely used in geotechnical engineering, agricultural engineering, mining engineering, mechanical engineering and other fields. It can better simulate mechanical problems and movement problems such as coal and rock mining, coal and rock transportation, soil excavation, crop transportation, and can also be used to simulate and analyze the force problems of rock and soil, crops and related machinery. This chapter mainly introduced the application of DEM in main coal machinery equipment and agricultural equipment.

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  1. College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

    Xuewen Wang

  2. College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

    Assoc. Prof. Bo Li

  3. College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

    Dr. Rui Xia

  4. College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

    Haozhou Ma

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Wang, X., Li, B., Xia, R., Ma, H. (2021). Application of DEM in Coal and Agricultural Machinery. In: Engineering Applications of Discrete Element Method. Engineering Applications of Computational Methods, vol 4. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7977-6_2

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