Documentation and Theory Overview

RocFall is a 2D statistical analysis program designed to assist with assessment of slopes at risk for rockfalls. The program can determine Energy, Velocity, and Bounce Height envelopes for the entire slope, as well as rock Location Endpoints. The program can also calculate distributions of Energy, Velocity, and Bounce Height along the slope profile. It can graph distributions and automatically calculate comprehensive statistics. RocFall additionally allows the user to perform both Lumped Mass and Rigid Body rockfall analyses.

Getting Started

If you are a new user of RocFall, you should begin by completing the RocFall - Quick Start tutorial to help familiarize yourself with the software’s main functions.

How to Use this Guide

Documentation

The Documentation tab helps you to get familiar with program features and provides details on specific tools/functions of the software. This section includes topics like terminology, general features, input data, analysis methods, viewing and display options, and more.

Begin with the RocFall Analysis Overview page for an overview of the program and analysis assumptions.

Tutorials

The tutorials tab provides easy to follow, step-by-step instructions demonstrating how to use various features of the program and provide guidance for more specific analysis features of RocFall. It is recommended that you go through as many of the tutorials as possible to get acquainted with the many different capabilities of the software.

Begin with the RocFall - Quick Start Tutorial for an introduction to the basic modelling and data interpretation features of RocFall.

Verification and Theory

The Theory and Verification tab contains a collection of Theory and Verification Manuals for the software. The Verification Examples represent an extensive set of models, from many different sources, which have been used to verify the accuracy of the solutions computed by the program. The Theory Manuals describes the equations used to calculate the behaviour of rockfalls under the lumped mass or rigid body assumption.