When designing truck bodies, diggers and excavators intended to handle rocks, coal and ores, getting representative load data is critical to have confidence in a design and ensure its durability and performance. With the EDEM-Abaqus sequential coupling, you can export realistic bulk material loads from EDEM and use them as a direct input to Abaqus structural analysis in place of hand-calculations or ball-park estimates. Using such high-fidelity loads provides greater insight into equipment performance and means improved design accuracy and less reliance on expensive physical prototyping to prove out a design.

In this presentation Dr David Curry, Principal Engineer at EDEM provides an overview of the EDEM-Abaqus coupling, explain how it works and provides some examples of the coupling in action.