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           Almanasi-Hmel strain tensor, 143       Constant strain tetrahedron, 166
           Amplitude error, 210                   Constant strain triangle, 156
           Angular momentum, 191                  Constitutive law, 1, 150, 164
           Angular velocity, 193                  Contact damping, 63
           Array , 293                            Contact detection, 33, 36, 73
           Averaged material properties, 1        Contact dynamic problem, 76
           Axisymmetric discrete element, 197     Contact impact, 221
                                                  Contact interaction, 33, 36
           Balance principles, 1                  Contact kinematics, 38
           Base vectors, 167                      Contact static problem, 75
           Beam collapse, 30                      Contactor, 41
           Binary tree, 81                        Container problem, 2
           Biot strain tensor, 143                Continuum hypothesis, 1
           Bodies of similar size, 80             Convective terms, 256
           Bonding stress, 240                    Corner to corner contact, 221
           Borehole, 271, 274                     Coupled differential equations, 2
           Boundary value problems, 1             CPU, 4
           Bounding box, 77                       CPU performance, 74, 111
           Bridge collapse, 31                    CPU requirements, 277, 279
           Butterfly effect, 220                   Crack, 231
                                                  Crack tip, 241, 243
           C-grid, 74, 128
           Cauchy stress tensor, 143, 144, 145    Damping ratio, 216
           Cauchy-Green strain tensor, 143, 163,  Dancing triangles, 174
               171, 317                           Data compression, 294
           C-computer language, 33, 280, 238, 292  DDA, 4, 27
           Central difference, 180                Decohesion, 231
           CFD, 256                               Deformation gradient, 132, 161, 171, 316
           CFD grid, 256, 276                     Deformed frame, 133, 167
           Characteristic length, 234             Deformibility, 132
           Chimney stack collapse, 30, 31         Degree of freedom, 220
           CHIN time integration scheme, 205      DEM, 1
           Collapse, 28, 29                       Density
           Collapse sequence, 238                   as function of size distribution, 23
           Combined continua-discontinua, 27        theoretical, 23
           Combined finite-discrete element method, 1,  Deposition sequence as function of shape, 25
               27, 29                             Discrete element methods, 4, 27
           Computational mechanics of discontinua, 3  Deterministic chaos, 220
           Computer hardware, 283                 Detonation gas, 259
           Computer language, 280                 Diagonal matrix of strain tensor, 154, 155
           Constant area duct, 267                Direct checking, 77, 277

           The Combined Finite-Discrete Element Method  A. Munjiza
            2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd ISBN: 0-470-84199-0
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