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Course: Rock Slope Stability

Course Details

  • Date: June 26th - 27th, 2023
  • Venue: Ouro Minas Hotel Belo Horizonte, Dolce by Wyndham,

    Av. Cristiano Machado, 4001 - Ipiranga, Belo Horizonte - MG, 31160-413

  • Schedule: 8:30 AM - 5 PM
  • Languages: The course will be instructed in English with live-translation into Portuguese.
  • Instructors: This course will be instructed by Dr. Grace Huang, Geomechanics Product Manager, Rocscience and Thiago Bretas, L3 Software.
  • Registration Fees:
    • Early Bird Price - $895 USD (until May 31st, 2023)
    • Regular Price - $995 USD

What’s included:

  • Temporary software licenses
  • PDF of course materials
  • PDH Certificate
  • Lunch & Snacks

Please note:

  • Registrants will be responsible for their own accommodation
  • Participants must bring their own laptops (and mice)
  • Participant numbers are limited

Rocscience Programs used:

  • Dips
  • RocPlane
  • SWedge
  • RocTopple
  • RocFall2
  • RocFall3

Course Outline:

Dips

  • Plotting stereonets and choosing joint sets
  • Methodology to identify planar, wedge, and toppling failure mechanisms
  • Kinematic Evaluations

RocPlane

  • Deterministic and probabilistic analysis of planar failures
  • Sensitivity analysis of input parameters
  • Design of mitigation options

SWedge

  • Deterministic and probabilistic analysis of wedge failures
  • Sensitivity analysis of input parameters
  • Design of mitigation options

RocTopple

  • Evaluation of block toppling and block-flexural toppling
  • Sensitivity analysis of input parameters

Advanced Topics (as time allows)

  • Bench analysis for open pit mines

RocFall2

  • General conditions for rockfalls and factors affecting trajectories
  • Impact theories for lump mass and rigid body in RocFall2
  • Point mass and rigid body analysis of the trajectories and energies of falling rock blocks
  • Design of mitigation measures such as catch fences and berms

RocFall3

  • Impact theories for lump mass and rigid body in RocFall3
  • 2D vs 3D rockfall analysis
  • 3D model construction and interpretation
  • Multi-section export to 2D (RocFall2) for group analysis


For any additional queries, please send an email to L3Software.


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Course Instructor:

Grace Huang, Ph.D, Geomechanics Product Manager, Rocscience, Grace completed her BASc in civil engineering at the University of Toronto, and her MSc and Ph.D. in civil engineering with a geotechnical focus at Virginia Tech. She has previous experience in software development, geotechnical consulting in the transportation sector, research, and teaching foundation engineering at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

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