Commands

Wrap zone and shell-based structural elements with PFC walls. This coupling allows for balls and clumps to interact directly with zones and shell-based structural elements.

Note

  • In order for PFC to cycle in a coupled fashion, FLAC3D must be in large strain mode. This is set with the model large-strain command.
  • The contact, PFC and wall-zone plugins must be loaded either via the Tools ‣ Plugins menu item or with the program load module command. In order to visualize PFC model components, PFC gui plugin must also be loaded; the program load guimodule command is used in this case.

Wall-Zone Commands

wall-zone compute-stiffness
wall-zone create
wall-zone full-computation
wall-zone stiffness-factor
wall-zone update-tolerance

Wall-Structure Commands

wall-structure compute-stiffness
wall-structure create
wall-structure full-computation
wall-structure stiffness-factor
wall-structure update-tolerance