Research Article

Three-Dimensional Discrete Element Analysis of Crushing Characteristics of Calcareous Sand Particles

Table 3

Numerical test scheme.

GroupsCrushing conditionConfining pressure (kPa)

CConsidering particle crushing100/200/300/400
UConsidering no particle crushing100/200/300/400

Note: in order to have convenient description, the samples are numbered, such as C100 and U100. C means the particle crushing is considered, U means the particle crushing is not considered, while 100 means the current confining pressure of the sample is 100 kPa. Other sample numbers can be inferred in the same way.