Modeling of the Collapse of a Macroporous Material

The macroporous materials are a mix of solid particles, joined together with bridges of materials that may be the same or different of the solid particles. For example, volcanic rocks like volcanic agglomerates. In this way, it is interesting to trying to explain how the collapse of these materials takes place. With the great improvement of the numerical methods and the power of computers it has been possible to carry out a discrete analysis instead of a continuum one, like would had happened with the classical theories of continuum. This article shows the first steps taken in this path of modeling the collapse of macroporous materials in a discrete way.