RocTunnel3

3D Rock Stability Analysis for Underground Excavations

Determines valid block formations by intersecting joints in 3D space and calculates the factor of safety for each block using the 3D limit equilibrium method.

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RocTunnel3

3D Rock Stability Analysis for Underground Excavations

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Deterministic and Probabilistic Block Stability Analysis

Find valid block formations by intersecting joints and calculate the factor of safety in deterministic analysis. You can sample rock unit weights, joint shear strength, and water pressure across simulations to calculate block failure probability.

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Deterministic and Probabilistic Block Stability Analysis

Find valid block formations by intersecting joints and calculate the factor of safety in deterministic analysis. You can sample rock unit weights, joint shear strength, and water pressure across simulations to calculate block failure probability.

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Staged Excavation and Support Design

Analyze block stability and the required support pressure and support depth in every construction stage for meeting a user specified design target. Design shotcrete, support pressures, and bolts in stages to address the challenges of structurally controlled failures underground.

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Staged Excavation and Support Design

Analyze block stability and the required support pressure and support depth in every construction stage for meeting a user specified design target. Design shotcrete, support pressures, and bolts in stages to address the challenges of structurally controlled failures underground.

3D Geological Structures

Model realistic 3D underground excavations in complex geological domain and structurally controlled failures in rock. Easily import and update geometry and joint field data, and you can export geometries of the excavation, blocks, and block failure information.

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3D Geological Structures

Model realistic 3D underground excavations in complex geological domain and structurally controlled failures in rock. Easily import and update geometry and joint field data, and you can export geometries of the excavation, blocks, and block failure information.

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RocTunnel3 Across Applications

  • Underground Mining
  • Tunnels
  • Underground Facilities

Underground Mining

Locate and assess block failures at multiple scales after blasting. You can characterize block failures from natural and excavation-induced joint sets, analyze required support capacities, and design your reinforcements.

Underground Mining

Tunnels

Assess and locate block failures in staged construction, design liners, and reinforcements for safe operations.

Tunnels

Underground Facilities

Assess the geologic hazards of underground energy and storage facilities, including seismic loading in complex geological domains.

Easily update your model with new survey data and perform probabilistic block stability analyses for safe long-term operations.

Underground Facilities

RocTunnel3 Seamlessly Integrates With

  • DIPS
  • ShapeMetriX
  • UnWedge

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Import joint locations and orientation data including set statistics from DIPS. For mapped joints, you can import the orientation and location of each defect.

When boreholes or scanlines are available, analyze joint set statistics in DIPS, then import the mean dip, dip direction, and Fisher K to define synthetic joint sets in RocTunnel3.

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Streamline the workflow from field data acquisition and structural geological mapping to 3D block stability analysis for underground excavations. Import underground excavation geometry and measured joint data from ShapeMetriX to RocTunnel3.

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Import model geometry, properties, and joints from UnWedge to fully define your model.

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The Latest Features

  • ShapeMetriX Import

    Quickly go from field data to 3D block stability assessment. You can easily import excavation geometry (.obj) and mapped joints (.3gdps) from ShapeMetriX for an efficient and geologically realistic 3D excavation block stability analysis. 

  • Support Design

    Apply and remove bolts, shotcrete, and support pressures in stages, and assess required support capacities and extents for every construction stage.

    Various bolt types are available, and you can easily view critical bolts and force diagrams and apply design standards or design factors of safety.

  • Key Block Analysis

    Identify key blocks that control large failure extents and simulate the successive unravelling of the excavation as key blocks are detached.

ShapeMetriX Import
Support Design
Key Block Analysis

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Explore our Learning Resources and User Guides, designed to help you excel with all of your geotechnical projects, whether you are a practicing engineer, an academic or a student.
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