Combined Block Search Filters
The Combined Block Search Filters dialog allow users to filter the search extents of combined blocks. Current search filters include:
- Max failure depth: if applied, the largest removable combined block search algorithm would look for the largest removable combined block within the user-defined maximum failure depth.
Benefits of using combined block search filters:
- Users may search for subsets of combined blocks within the largest removable combined block. These smaller combined blocks may have lower factors of safety, larger required support pressures, or limited failure depth (volume) for practical applications.
- Changes made to the dialog would clear results for only Compute Kinematics and not Compute Blocks. This approach saves computation time as Compute Kinematics tends to be much less computationally expensive compared to Compute Blocks. Users would be able to quickly assess different subsets of combined blocks without incurring long wait times