ROCKY uses truly non-spherical particle models, considering different levels of moisture adhesion , friction and impact restitution, to better replicate real-world particles behavior and produces more realistic results. It is able to simulate realistic breakage by calculating the fracture of each particle based upon the energy generated from impact or friction. The new GPU accelerates the computational workload, especially when processing simulations with many particles. Application fields Besides chute design, vibrating screens, roll screen, mills and crush machinery in mine engineering, ROCKY can be used for a wide range of applications in granular material handling systems; including mining, food, pharmacological and packaging industries concerned with: plugged chutes, belt and apron feeders, vibrating feeders, bins and bunkers, stockpile reclaims, shovel arms, moving gates, rod mills, screw conveyors, excavators. ACCURATE realistic physical representation. Not only spherical particles. Real particles shape or customized particles, no clusters of spheres FAST with unprecedented solver performance. Shared-parallel memory for both GPU and CPU CUSTOMIZED and tailored for equipment designers EASY TO USE with a modern and flexible GUI for Pre-Processing and Post-Processing FULLY INTEGRATED WITH ANSYS TOOLS Full integrated with ANSYS Workbench. Direct coupled with geometry, structural and fluid environment Would you like to couple fluid-structural simulation with particles in the ANSYS environment? Now you can, thanks to the full integration of ROCKY, the state of art DEM Particle Simulator, into ANSYS Workbench. It is a unique solution compared to other DEM codes, being able to use an accurate particle shape representation to simulate true non-round particles not only spheres, but a wide range of shapes is available in the software library. Particles shapes and contact dynamics are closer to reality, therefore allowing more realistic results to be reached. The coupling with the ANSYS structural package allows customers to apply loads evaluated in ROCKY on ANSYS static structural and transient analysis, as well as modal and frequency analyses. The coupling with the ANSYS fluid package, considers the industry needs for both single phase and multiphase simulations, 1-way and 2-way coupling between ROCKY and ANSYS Fluent are available. In terms of fragmentation and wear analysis, ROCKY simulates breakage by calculating the fracture of each particle based upon the energy generated from impact or friction. This feature allows very precise breakage simulation of the particles to be performed without mass or volume loss, an unavoidable effect when using spherical clusters only. Wear analysis, is another unique feature of ROCKY, is the way to simulate the physical wear of boundaries. The software collects shear work applied by particles to their boundary and removes boundary volume proportional to this wear work. This feature is extremely useful for predicting particle flow properties where they are affected by boundary changes due to wear.