Author: Pratik Deshpande

Pratik is a CAE analyst with a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey. At EDST, Pratik is responsible for technical initiatives for SIMULIA across industry segments. He works very closely with strategic customers, understanding their design requirements and provide specific workflows with SIMULIA products on mechanisms, FSI, Vibration, Co-Simulation, Fatigue and Failure Models. He had worked with Detroit Engineered Products Inc., Michigan, as an Applications Engineer and as a CAE Lead Research Engineer with Light weight manufacturing systems, General Motors.

The computation of effect and motion of a large group spherical particles, where the particles interact with one another and with other surfaces/flow is known as discrete element method (DEM). Granular particles can be simulated in Abaqus using DEM in Abaqus/Explicit Analysis. Abaqus also has another technique to model particles and the technique is known as Smoothed…