Unwedge is designed to be a quick, interactive and simple to use tool for the analysis of the geometry and stability of underground wedges defined by intersecting structural discontinuities in the rock mass surrounding an underground excavation.
New Users
If you are a new user of Unwedge, you can quickly familiarize yourself with the program as follows:
For an overview of the main assumptions of the Unwedge analysis, see the Program Assumptions topic.
For a general outline of how to carry out an analysis with Unwedge, see the Steps for a Typical Analysis topic.
See the Tutorials section and complete the Quick Start Tutorial. Then go through tutorials 2 to 6 for an introduction to many of the basic modeling and data interpretation features in Unwedge.
TIP: for reference information on all of the program options, use the Table of Contents, Index or Search features in this Help system.
What's New in Version 3.0
See the What's New in Version 3.0 page for a listing of new features in Unwedge v.3.0.