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PFC3D
Particle Flow Code
in 3 Dimensions
Online Manual Table of Contents
USERS GUIDE
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Terms and Conditions
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Section 1 : Introduction
Section 2 : Getting Started
Section 3 : Problem Solving with PFC 3D
Section 4 : FISH Beginners Guide
Section 5 : Miscellaneous
Section 6 : Bibliography

COMMAND REFERENCE
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Section 1 : Command Reference

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FISH IN PFC 3D
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Section 1 : FISH Beginners Guide
Section 2 : FISH Reference
Section 3 : PFC Fishtank
Section 4 : AC/DC (Adaptive Continuum/DisContinuum) Logic

THEORY AND BACKGROUND

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Section 1 : General Formulation
Section 2 : Contact Models
Section 3 : Implementation Issues
Section 4 : Clump Logic
Section 5 : General Wall Logic

OPTIONAL FEATURES
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Section 1 : Thermal Option
Section 2 : Basic Fluid Analysis Option
Section 3 : User-Written C++ Code
Section 4 : Parallel Processing
Section 5 : User-Defined Contact Models
Section 6 : Post-processing with Iv, the Itasca Viewer

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VERIFICATION PROBLEMS AND EXAMPLE APPLICATIONS

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Tip-Loaded Cantilever Beam
Energy Computations
Collisions with a Particle Assembly
Porosity Computations
Strength of a Face-Centered Cubic Array of Uniform Rigid Spheres
Verification of the Hertz-Mindlin Contact Model
Relation between Restitution Coefficient and Damping Constant
Angle-of-Repose Test
Granular Flow from a Hopper
Mine Block-Caving Process
Rockfall
Dynamics of a Beam-Column Structure
Wave Propagation in Particle Assemblies
Triaxial Test on a Face-Centered Cubic Array of Rigid Particles
Experiments in Geometry with FISH
Incorporation of Fluid Coupling in PFC 3D

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