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RecurDyn EDEM Interface

Coupled Multibody and Solid Particle Dynamics Analysis

RecurDyn can be coupled with solid particle dynamics software EDEM to optimize the design of heavy equipment such as excavators, plows, and off-road vehicles.  Combining RecurDyn with EDEM allows engineers to introduce realistic bulk material behaviors to their multi-body dynamics simulations, and offers engineers unrivaled insight into how material loads are transferred throughout a mechanical system.

During a co-simulation with RecurDyn, EDEM calculates the bulk material forces and torques acting on equipment during machine operation. These equipment loads are then passed to RecurDyn where equipment motion and response to the bulk material is simulated. RecurDyn then returns the new velocity and position of the equipment to EDEM and the co-simulation process continues to the next synchronization point.

Key Benefits

  • Increased design accuracy
  • Greater insight into equipment performance
  • Less reliance on hand calculations and approximation
  • Reduction in expensive physical prototyping
  • Designs can be tested virtually for a wide range of maneuvers and materials types

Applications

The RecurDyn/EDEM coupling can be applied to many different applications including:

  • Off-road construction and forestry machinery: wheel loaders, hydraulic excavators, backhoe loaders, tracked vehicles, multi-terrain bucket loaders
  • Mining Machinery: long-wall miners, shearers, drag line excavators
  • Agricultural machinery: tillage implements, grain harvesters, screw auger discharge
  • Chemical and Pharmaceutical: mixing, coating, handling equipment
  • Vehicle handling: tracked vehicles, tire-soil interactions

About EDEM

EDEM is the market-leading Discrete Element Method (DEM) software for bulk material simulation.

First introduced to the market in 2006, EDEM software is used for ‘virtual testing’ of equipment that handles or processes bulk materials in the manufacturing of mining, construction, off-highway and agricultural machinery, as well as in the mining and process industries.

Blue-chip companies around the world use EDEM to optimize equipment design, increase productivity, reduce costs of operations, shorten product development cycles and drive product innovation. In addition EDEM is used for research at over 200 academic institutions worldwide.

EDEM is a global company established in 2003 as DEM Solutions Ltd. and headquartered in Edinburgh, UK with offices in USA and Japan and supported by a network of channel partners in South America, South Africa and Asia-Pacific.

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