Building Blocks works seamlessly with the FLAC3D 6.0 extruder tool and new Model Pane. Building Blocks includes a library of model primates and users can also add and load their own building block sets.
A tutorial showing how to create an unstructured mesh in FLAC3D 7.0 using the extruder pane.
Sishen mine in South Africa is one of the largest open-pit iron mines in the world.
What’s happening at the Kiirunavaara Mine?
We derive the relationships that link the general elastic properties of rock masses to the geometrical properties of fracture networks, with a special emphasis to the case of frictional crack surfaces.
We extend the well-known elastic solutions for free-slipping cracks to fractures whose plane resistance is defined by an elastic fracture (shear) stiffness ks and a stick-slip Coulomb threshold.