@article {Munjiza2010, title = {{The Virtual Geoscience Workbench, VGW: Open Source tools for discontinuous systems}}, journal = {Particuology}, volume = {8}, number = {2}, year = {2010}, month = {apr}, pages = {100{\textendash}105}, abstract = {In 1989 work began on merging finite and discrete elements. During 1990 algorithmic solutions for the new combined method were developed, together with a C-based implementation known as the Y code. In 2004 these developments and implementations were published as a textbook. Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and Imperial College are currently engaged in a research project to make Y codes in both 2D and 3D available in Open Source format and with mainly geoscience problems in mind. The result is a set of Open Source tools for Geoscience (VGW), key components of which are summarised in this paper, together with illustrative range of simulation results. {\textcopyright} 2009 Chinese Society of Particuology and Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences.}, keywords = {Combined finite-discrete element, Geoscience, Modelling, Workbench}, issn = {16742001}, doi = {10.1016/j.partic.2009.04.008}, url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77949485463\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1}, author = {Munjiza, A. and XIANG, J. and Garcia, X. and Latham, J.P. and D{\textquoteright}Albano, G.G. Schiava and John, N.W.M.} }