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Harmonising Rock Engineering and the Environment – Qian Zhou (eds) © 2012 Taylor Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-0-415-80444-8 3-D modeling and parameters research of irregular shape particles for DEM based on computerized tomography X. Du, Y.W. Zeng, R. Gao J. Yan School of Civil Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China ABSTRACT: Granular materials have been widely used in various fields of civil engineering. Due to the wealthy contact models and explicit mechanical framework of discrete element method (DEM), it has become one of the major research methods for analysing granular materials. As the shapes of real particles are irregular, the common problems of analysing mechanical response of granular materials are the shape and inertia’s representation. In this paper, firstly, the authors collected the 3-D coordinates of a real particle by dealing with computerized tomography imaging; secondly, a computing programme was compiled based on the 3-D coordinates for the generation of particle model. The particle model is built by combining the basic-spheres (B-S) automatically under a preset three governing parameters algorithm. The process of modelling can be repeated by the execution of the programme; simultaneously, the governing parameters are discussed for the purpose of modelling optimization, and some suggestions and conclusions are given. Subject: Modeling and numerical methods Keywords : numerical modeling; physical modeling; rock properties 1 INTRODUCTION Granular materials have been widely used in various fields of civil engineering, such as railway ballast, gravel embank- ment of roads, et al. A notable characteristic of these materials is irregular-shape (Garcia et al, 2009a). This feature