Software Products

POWERFUL

• Numerical stability with large displacements, including collapse
• Very large models (64-bit)
• 19 built-in material behaviors; more available with options
• Automatic factor-of-safety analysis
• Coupled or uncoupled groundwater flow
• Optional dynamic, thermal, and creep solution analyses
• Solution analyses can be coupled to the mechanical analysis within FLAC
• Models can be be coupled to another instance of FLAC or to PFC2D (requires PFC2D license)
• Complex materials and pore pressure distributions
• Assess service limit state criteria
• Scripting with FISH to access, monitor, and control nearly every model and solution parameter
• Customize constitutive models using FISH
• Customize constitutive models using optional C++ User-Defined Models (UDM)

EFFICIENT

• Multi-core processing
• Optimized solution algorithms
• Customized material behaviors using optional C++ UDMs

PROVEN

• Tested against analytical solutions
• Used by Itasca’s own consulting engineers and scientists
• Large repository of examples and validations, with 1000’s of published articles and conference papers
• Thousands of licenses used worldwide by industry, universities, and government agencies

RELIABLE

• Realistic physical solutions
• Natural evolution of failure
• Transparent methodology with all equations and algorithms fully documented
• Built-in constitutive models are open-source; no black boxes
• Live, person-to-person software support provided by experienced engineers and software developers
• Extensive manuals and documentation
• Automated software update notification

FLEXIBLE

• General by design
• Access to almost all internal variables via the embedded FISH scripting language
• CAD interoperability
• Import and export data using ASCII
• Human-readable data files (ASCII)
• Users may write their own constitutive models using FISH or the optional C++ UDM
• Standard License is portable between computers and users
• Network licenses are available
• License leases are available on monthly or annual terms

ECONOMICAL

• No CPU limits
• No annual maintenance fee
• 50% discount for academic institutions
• Coupled or uncoupled steady-state and transient fluid flow is included
• Two instances of FLAC can be run on a single computer with a standard license
• 19 constitutive models, including Hoek-Brown, Swell, Plastic Hardening, and NorSand
• Includes 64-bit version, parallel-processing optimization, and FISH scripting
• Free standard technical support and software updates