Examples

Verification Problems & Example Applications

• Sliding Wedge
• Falling Wedge
• Block with a Slipping Crack under Cyclic Loading
• Cylindrical Hole in an Infinite Elastic Medium
• Cylindrical Hole in an Infinite Mohr-Coulomb Medium
• Rough Square Footing on a Cohesive Frictionless Material
• Stability of an Open Pit in a Jointed Rock Mass
• Assessment of Fault Slip Potential from Sill Pillar Mining
• Highway Loading of an Arch Bridge
• Hydraulic Fracture
• Hydraulic Fracture with DFN
• Excavation in a Saturated Soil
• Flying Buttress
• Flemish Wall
• Discrete Fracture Network (Advanced)
• Finite Element Dam
• Open Pit with Face Blocks
• Open Pit with Octree Blocking
  • Geometries
  • Zoning and Properites
  • Initial and Boundary Conditions
  • Excavation
  • Painting
• Sliding and Toppling Blocks
• Supported Tunnel
• UCS Test with Fragmentation
• UCS Test with Voronoi Blocks
• Rockmass Integration
• Lined Circular Tunnel in an Elastic Medium with Anisotropic Stresses
• Tutorial: Braced Support of a Vertical Excavation
• Example: Ring Support of a Jointed Tunnel
• Cable-Reinforced Beam
• Example: Pull-Test for a Grouted Cable Anchor
• Advancing Lined Tunnel (Slip at Liner-Soil Interface)
• Demonstration of Large-Strain Sliding
• Simple Test of Liner-Block Interface Behavior
• Liner-Reinforced Beam
• Structural Liner in Jointed Tunnel
• Example: Shear and tension test for rockbolt crossing a joint
  • Simple Shear Test
  • Simple Tension Test

This section contains documentation on a series of verification problems and example applications that have been solved using 3DEC. The verification problems are tests in which the 3DEC solution is compared directly to an analytical (i.e., closed-form) solution. The example applications demonstrate various classes of problems to which 3DEC may be applied.