Technical Specifications
Compute
- Parallel 64-bit processing
- Fully optimized
- Direct or iterative solver
- Coupled stress/pore pressure using Biot theory
Data Interpretation
- 2D/3D view
- Plot contours on horizontal, vertical, or arbitrary planes
- Plot contours on boundaries
- View stress, displacement contours
- Effective stress, pore pressure contours
- Contour user-defined data
- Deformation vectors
- Groundwater discharge vectors
- Display deformations to user-defined scale
- Query and graph material, support data
- Show values directly on model
- Highlight yielded material and support elements
- Display iso-surfaces
- Data tips for any object
- Annotation and dimensioning tool kit
- Export to Excel
- Export image files
Far-Field Stress
- Constant stress field
- Gravity stress field
- Stress field per material Finite Element Slope Stability
- Automated FE slope stability using shear strength reduction (SSR) method
- Define SSR include/exclude area
- Documentation including verification models and tutorials
Groundwater
- 3D finite element seepage analysis
- Steady state or transient
- Staged groundwater
- Material permeability functions
- Discharge sections
- Piezometric lines
- Pore pressure point set
- Coupled/uncoupled analysis
- Add water surface by location
- Add pore water pressure point set by location
Loads
- Point load
- Line load
- Distributed load
- Ponded water load
- Staged loading
- Springs
- Seismic loading
- Dynamic analysis
Materials
- Soil or rock
- Elastic or plastic
- Multiple materials
- Mohr-Coulomb, Hoek-Brown, Drucker-Prager, Generalized Hoek-Brown, Cam-Clay, Modified Cam-Clay, Discrete Functions, Mohr-Coulomb with Cap material models
- Softening hardening model
- Staged material properties
- Datum-dependent properties
- Import from RSData
- Linear isotropic, transversely isotropic, orthotropic, Duncan-Chang Hyperbolic, non-linear isotropic, custom
- User-defined material models library, including ChSoil, CySoil, Hardening Soil, and Hardening Soil with Small Strain Stiffness
Meshing
- 3D tetrahedral mesh
- 4–noded or 10–noded elements
- One-click mesh generation
- Graded meshing
- Uniform meshing
- Check/Define mesh quality
- Define mesh refinement region
Modeling
- Create 3D models with CAD tools
- Multiple excavations
- Interactive geometry entry
- Vertex/Object snapping
- One-click material assignment
- Import 3D .dxf, .dwg, .obj, .stl, .step, .iges, .tin, .asc, .xyz fi les
- Import from Examine
- Export planar section to RS2, Slide2
- Right-click editing shortcuts
- Interactive sidebar
- Interactive staging timeline
- Tunnel profile tool
- Define soil profile with boreholes
Support
- Bolts
- Liners
- Beams
- Forepoles/Piles
- Staged support installation
- Bolt types—end anchored, fully bonded, cable bolts, Swellex, splitset, tiebacks
- Composite liners with interface elements
- Elastic or plastic
- Peak/Residual strength