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