Some members joined DEM10, 10th international conference of Discrete Element Method, which was held in Himeji. It was very fortunate to have such a big and important international conference in Japan!  I (Morimoto) saw many friends from my PhD study in UK. I also had dinner with my former supervisor, Prof. Catherine O’Sullivan.

 

Rawiwan Sukhumkitcharoen, M. Otsubo, and J. Koseki, “DEM Simulation of Soil Liquefaction: Influence of Gravity on Resistance and Particle Instability”

Tokio Morimoto, “Critical Appraisal of Various CFD Methods to Calculate Fluid-Particle Interaction Forces in Gap-graded Soils”