MINIMUM
REQUIREMENTS

• Windows XP or later, 32 or 64 bit
• 200 MB of free hard-disk space
• 256 MB memory (RAM)

SUGGESTED REQUIREMENTS

• Windows 7, 32 or 64 bit
• 200 MB of free hard-disk space
• 1 GB memory (RAM)

RocFall is a statistical analysis program designed to assist with assessment of slopes at risk for rockfalls. Energy, velocity and "bounce height" envelopes for the entire slope are determined by the program, as is the location of rock endpoints. Distributions of energy, velocity and bounce-height are also calculated along the slope profile; Distributions can be graphed and comprehensive statistics are automatically calculated.

 

 

RocFall can also assist in determining remedial measures: the material properties of each slope segment can be changed allowing for comparison of results. Information about the kinetic energy and location of impact on a barrier can help determine the capacity, size and location of barriers. RocFall provides various ways of interacting with other Windows programs. All input and output data (formatted in tabular form) and screen captures, can be "pasted" into a word processor for speedy report writing. RocFall also allows "raw" data (e.g. the impact location on a barrier) to be "pasted" into a spreadsheet for more detailed analysis. (e.g. determining what fraction of the impact locations were above a certain height or fitting a probability distribution to the data).

To assist with determining coefficients of restitution, RocFall 4.0 now includes a large table of coefficients of restitution that was compiled after an extensive literature search. RocFall also provides a Material Wizard that uses statistics to determine the coefficient of restitution (RN) for a material, based on the back-calculation of rock endpoints. Rock paths can be filtered. (e.g. you can right-click on a barrier and select, from the many impacts on the barrier, 10 paths that had the highest velocity when they contacted the barrier).

 

RocFall 4.0 now allows you to create faster and easier high quality output. Printing and margins are improved, as is the quality of the printed graphs. Graphs can be exported to Excel with 1-click and the slope and rock-paths can easily be exported to a DXF file for import into a CAD program. The Drawing toolkit has been improved to include importing of bitmap files, multi-line text-boxes that can be auto-filled with relevant simulation data, axes that can be dragged-and-dropped to show coordinates on a printed page and much more.