This tutorial steps through the actions necessary to quickly create and solve a FLAC3D model. The focus of this tutorial is to provide you with a basic familiarity with the user interface and recommended work flow.
Any model plot that you create interactively by adding plot-items and adjusting settings can be represented by an equivalent set of commands. This is useful should you want to include command-driven plotting in your modeling run.
A tutorial showing how to create an unstructured mesh in FLAC3D 7.0 using the extruder pane.
It has become common practice to create a three-dimensional (3-D) geomechanical model for the analysis of rock stability.
This paper presents a model of a stone masonry Roman aqueduct (the Valens Aqueduct), constructed in the fourth century A.D. in Istanbul, Turkey, to explore the seismic capacity and behavior using the discrete element method (DEM).
The challenges of mining economically have never been greater than under current global financial conditions.