“Getting Started With Dynamic Modeling in FLAC3D ”
OnlineMay 12, 2025 - May 13, 2025
This training supplies the tools needed to describe and apply the workflow for dynamic analysis in FLAC3D, demonstrating a comprehensive understanding of each step involved, including model setup, boundary conditions, input signal application, and damping, to effectively analyze dynamic behavior in geotechnical simulations.
Python in Itasca Software
OnlineJun 11, 2025 - Jun 12, 2025
IMAT Training: Revolutionizing Mining Analysis with Seismology & Numerical Modeling
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United StatesJun 16, 2025 - Jun 18, 2025
Explore IMAT’s latest upgrade, uniting open-pit and underground mining capabilities for faster, smarter, and more efficient modeling.
Software Tutorials
FLAC3D 6.0 Model Generation using the Building Blocks and Geometric Data Sets
FLAC3D 7.0 Unstructured Mesh Tutorial
A tutorial showing how to create an unstructured mesh in FLAC3D 7.0 using the extruder pane.
Tunnel Pulse with Quiet Boundaries
A pressure pulse is being applied to the tunnel boundary with a frequency of 4 Hz over tens of milliseconds. Quiet (i.e., viscous) boundaries have been applied to all but the top of the model, which remains a free surface.
Technical Papers
PFC (Particle Flow Code): Rock Cutting Excerpt
Historical development and engineering applications using PFC2D and PFC3D.
Formulation and Application of a Constitutive Model for Multijointed Material to Rock Mass Engineering
This paper presents the formulation of a constitutive model to simulate the behavior of foliated rock mass. The 3D elastoplastic constitutive model, called Comba, accounts for the presence of arbitrary orientations of weakness in a nonisotropic elastoplastic matrix.
Elastic Properties of Fractured Rock Masses With Frictional Properties and Power Law Fracture Size Distributions
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.