Abstract : Powder-based microstructures are traditionally modelled using densely packed spherical particles. In this letter, a new dropping and rolling packing algorithm is employed by means of analytical equations, to investigate the random packing of spherical particles. The three-dimensional randomly packed microstructures are quantified in terms of packing density and computational time.
Karim Hitti, Marc Bernacki. Optimized Dropping and Rolling (ODR) method for packing of poly-disperse spheres. Applied Mathematical Modelling, Elsevier, 2013, 37 (8), pp.5715-5722. ⟨10.1016/j.apm.2012.11.018⟩. ⟨hal-00780744⟩