Study on the Effect of Amygdales on Mechanical Characteristics of Basalt Using the Combined Finite-Discrete Element Method

Figure 5

Modeling process of basalt microstructures. (a) Actual image of amygdaloidal basalt, and image size is 50 mm × 100 mm; (b) digital image of (a) processed by python; (c) amygdale boundary lines drawn using arcs.

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