Technical Specifications

File Output

• Export to Excel
• JTDIST utility program—define up to five synthetic joint sets, generate a Dips file
• Save processed file

Filtering / Attribute Analysis

• Create charts or symbolic pole plots based on any data column in the file
• Edit symbols, create symbol master list
• Filter by set
• Histogram, line or pie charts
• Plot qualitative/quantitative data
• Powerful database query, easily create data subsets

Input Data

• Curved borehole analysis—input collar and survey files
• Declination for magnetic/azimuth correction
• Distance column
• Integrated spreadsheet
• Linear/planar orientation data
• Quantity column for multiple identical data entries
• Unlimited number of columns for additional data

Jointing Analysis

• Joint Frequency (unweighted or weighted)
• Joint Set Spacing (true spacing or apparent spacing)
• Metric or Imperial units
• Plot selected traverses or all traverses
• RQD Analysis (discrete or moving interval)

Kinematic Analysis

• Apply declination to slope dip direction
• Apply Terzaghi weighting to pole count
• Direct toppling
• Export results to Excel
• Flexural toppling
• Highlight critical zones
• Highlight slope plane on stereonet
• Lateral limits
• Planar sliding
• Poles, dip vectors, intersections
• Kinematic sensitivity analysis: sensitivity plots of slope dip, dip direction, friction angle, lateral limits, for planar sliding, wedge sliding, toppling analysis
• Wedge sliding

Orientation Formats

• Dip/Dip direction
• Multiple formats in one file using traverses
• Oriented core (alpha/beta)
• Strike/Dip (right or left hand rule for strike)
• Trend/Plunge (linear data)
  

Projections

• Equal angle, equal area
• Upper/lower hemisphere
  

Statistical Analysis

• Best fit plane through poles (fold analysis)
• Confidence and variability cones
• Fisher distributions for contour plots
• Fuzzy cluster analysis for automatic detection of joint sets
• Global mean vector
• Mean vector calculation
• Statistics listed in Info Viewer
• User-defined set windows for orientation (pole) clusters
  

Stereonet Plots

• 3D stereosphere
• Contour arbitrary data on stereonet
• Contour plot
• Customize display options
• Overlay of contours, poles, planes, intersections
• Planes plot
• Pole or dip vector mode
• Pole plot
• Plot traverse orientations on stereonet
• Rosette plot
• Scatter plot
• Symbolic plot
• View intersections

Stereonet Toolkit

• Add planes (rubber plane for interactive data analysis)
• Data rotation about arbitrary axis
• Daylight envelopes for sliding analysis in slope design
• Drawing tools, text annotations
• Intersection calculator
• Onscreen angle measurement
• Onscreen pole identification
• Plot lineations on planes
• Polar/equatorial grid overlay
• Small circles about any axis (e.g. friction circles, toppling bounds)
• User-defined trend/strike reference line
  

Traverses

• Bias correction (Terzaghi weighting)
• Borehole (oriented core)
• Clinorule
• Curved borehole (oriented core)
• Curved borehole (televiewer)
• Linear (e.g. scanline)
• Linear borehole (televiewer)
• Planar (e.g. wall map)
  

Viewing Options

• Current view state saved with file
• Global undo/redo
• Improved printing with customizable headers and footers
• Interactive graphical editing
• Save plots to .bmp, .jpg, .metafile, .png, .gif
• Sidebar for quick access to display