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Summary

  • New bench_triaxial example validating DEM triaxial compression against Mohr-Coulomb failure theory
  • Runs at 4 confining pressures (10, 50, 100, 200 kPa) with servo-controlled lateral walls and constant-velocity axial compression
  • Extracts peak stress ratio → friction angle φ and verifies consistency with inter-particle friction (μ = 0.5 → φ ≈ 20–30°)

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File Description
examples/bench_triaxial/main.rs 3-stage simulation (insert → relax → compress) with custom wall compression and stress output systems
examples/bench_triaxial/config_{10,50,100,200}kPa.toml Configs with different servo target forces for each confining pressure
examples/bench_triaxial/validate.py 5 quantitative checks: valid data, stress ratio range, friction angle range, cross-pressure consistency, MC linearity
examples/bench_triaxial/plot.py Generates stress–strain curves, Mohr circles with failure envelope, q–p diagram
examples/bench_triaxial/run_benchmark.sh Runs all 4 pressures sequentially
examples/bench_triaxial/README.md Physics background, setup parameters, simplifications, references

Physics

  • Mohr-Coulomb criterion: sin(φ) = (σ₁ − σ₃) / (σ₁ + σ₃)
  • Stress computed from wall force accumulators (σ₁ from top wall, σ₃ from lateral servos)
  • Gravity zeroed during compression for uniform stress distribution
  • Quasi-static loading (inertial number I ≪ 0.01)

Test plan

  • cargo build --no-default-features --example bench_triaxial compiles
  • cargo test --no-default-features --workspace passes
  • No clippy warnings in bench_triaxial code
  • Run bash examples/bench_triaxial/run_benchmark.sh and verify output
  • Run python3 examples/bench_triaxial/validate.py — all checks pass
  • Run python3 examples/bench_triaxial/plot.py — plots generated

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SueHeir and others added 2 commits March 16, 2026 19:13
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New example `bench_triaxial` runs DEM triaxial compression at four confining
pressures (10, 50, 100, 200 kPa) with servo-controlled lateral walls and
constant-velocity axial compression. Validates that the peak stress ratio
yields a friction angle consistent with inter-particle friction (φ ≈ 20-30°
for μ = 0.5).

Includes:
- main.rs with 3-stage simulation (insert → relax → compress)
- 4 config files for different confining pressures
- validate.py with 5 quantitative checks against Mohr-Coulomb theory
- plot.py generating stress-strain, Mohr circle, and q-p plots
- run_benchmark.sh to run all pressures sequentially
- README.md documenting physics, setup, and validation criteria

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Key changes:
- Reduce particles from 300 to 100 (avoids infinite-loop insertion bug)
- Remove ContactAnalysisPlugin (not needed for stress validation)
- Reduce confining pressures from 4 to 3 (10, 50, 200 kPa)
- Reduce step counts: 50k+30k+100k = 180k (from 300k+200k+500k = 1M)
- Increase compression velocity from 5e-4 to 1e-3 m/s
- Relax KE threshold for relax→compress transition (1e-7 → 1e-5)
- All 5 validation checks pass (φ = 31.3° ± 3.0°, R² = 0.999)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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