3DEC Examples Index

All example problems in the 3DEC documentation are indexed here, for reference, by group.

Example Applications	Structural Liner Examples
Verification Problems	Joint Constitutive Model Tests
Dynamic Analysis	Creep Verifications & Examples
Factor of Safety Calculations	Thermal Verifications & Examples
Structural Cable Examples	Fluid Verifications & Examples
Structural Beam Examples	Geometry Data Examples
Structural Pile Examples (Rockbolts)	3DEC-FLAC3D Coupled Examples
Structural Hybrid Bolt Examples

Mechanical Example Applications
Stability of an Open Pit
Assessment of Fault Sip Potential from Sill Pillar Mining
Highway Loading of an Arch Bridge
Flying Buttress
Flemish Wall
Discrete Fracture Network (Advanced)
Finite Element Dam
Open Pit with Face Blocks
Open Pit with Octree Blocking
Supported Tunnel
UCS Fragmentation
UCS Test with Voronoi Blocks
Rockmass Integration
Tunnel Excavation in a Bonded Block Model
Braced Support of a Vertical Excavation
Ring Support of a Jointed Tunnel
Advancing Lined Tunnel
Structural Liner in a Jointed Tunnel
Reinforced Concrete Beam
Creep Response of a Bedded Salt Formation
Uniaxial Compression and Extension Tests with Concrete Model

Mechanical Verification Problems
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
Sliding and Toppling Blocks
Lined Circular Tunnel in an Elastic Medium with Anisotropic Stresses

Dynamic Problems
Rayleigh Damping
Maxwell Damping
Natural Periods of an Elastic Column
Wave Transmission
Partial Density Scaling
Free Field Boundaries
Natural Frequencies and Modes of Vibration
Slip Induced by Harmonic Shear Wave
Line Source in an Infinite Elastic Medium with a Discontinuity

Factor of Safety Calculations
Failure of a Simple Slope in Jointed Mohr-Coulomb Material
Verification Tests for a Simple Slope in Hoek-Brown Material
Factor-of-Safety Contours

Structural Cable Examples
Cable-Reinforced Beam
Loading and Sequential Modeling
Pull-Test for a Grouted Cable Anchor
Reinforced Concrete Beam

Structural Beam Examples
Verification Problems
Elastic Beam with Applied Moment
Elastic Beam with Concentrated Loads
Elastic Beam (Buckling)
Elastic Beam (Plastic Hinges)
Plastic Hinge Formation (with beam elements)
Elastic-Plastic Beam with Two Plastic Hinges
Free Vibration of a Cantilever Beam
Example Applications
Braced Excavation
Ring Support of a Jointed Tunnel

Structural Pile Examples (Rockbolts)
Shear and tension test for rockbolt crossing a joint

Structural Liner Examples
Verification Problems
Lined Circular Tunnel in an Elastic Medium with Anisotropic Stresses
Simple Test of Liner-Block Interface Behavior
Example Applications
Loading and Sequential Modeling
Supported Tunnel
Demonstration of Large-Strain Sliding
Advancing Lined Tunnel (Slip at Liner-Soil Interface)
Embedded Retaining Wall
Liner-Reinforced Beam

Structural Hybrid Bolt Examples
Simple Tunnel with Hybrid Bolt Support
Shear Pull-Tests for Hybrid bolts
Supported Tunnel

Fluid Verification and Example Problems
Verification Problems
Transient Groundwater Flow in a Confined Layer
One-Dimensional Consolidation
Hydraulic Fracture
Example Applications
No Flow Example
Matrix Flow: Steady State Matrix Flow
Matrix Flow: Transient
Matrix Flow: Undrained
Matrix Flow: Coupled
Matrix Flow: Uncoupled
Joint Flow: Flow only
Joint Flow: One-way Coupling
Joint Flow: Undrained
Joint Flow: Fully Coupled
Joint Flow: Fully Coupled with Fast Flow
Leakoff
Discrete Fracture Network
Gas Flow
Proppant: Planar Flow
Proppant: Injection
Proppant: Bridging
Hydraulic Fracture with DFN
Excavation in a Saturated Soil

Creep Verification and Example Problems
Maxwell/Burgers Model: Parallel-Plate Viscometer
WIPP-Type Models: Parallel-Plate Viscometer
Power Model: Cylindrical Cavity
Power-Mohr Model: Cylindrical Cavity
WIPP Model: Cylindrical Cavity
Maxwell Model: Oedometer Test
Kelvin Model: Oedometer Test
Burgers-Mohr/Power-Mohr Model: Loading/Unloading Compression Test
WIPP-Drucker Model: Comparison with Drucker-Prager Model
WIPP-Drucker Model: Compression Test Showing Localization
WIPP-Salt Model: Hydrostatic Compression Test
WIPP-Salt Model: Shear Compression Test
Loaded Block: Burgers Model
Creep Response of a Bedded Salt Formation

Thermal Verification and Example Problems
Conduction in a Plane Sheet
Conduction in a Hollow Cylinder
Infinite Line Heat Source in an Infinite Medium
1-D Solution of Thermal Transport by Forced Convection and Conduction
Thermal Convection in a Fracture at Depth
Analytical: A Single Non-decaying Point Heat Source
Analytical: Superposition of Several Non-decaying Sources
Analytical: Lines and Grids of Sources
Analytical: Decaying Sources
Analytical: Thermomechanical Effects
Analytical: Waste Repository Drift Model

Joint Constitutive Model Tests
Mohr-Coulomb
Softening-Healing
Bilinear Mohr-Coulomb
Power-Law Creep
Continuously Yielding
Non-linear Stiffness

3DEC-FLAC3D Coupled Examples
Simple Test of Zone-Block Coupling
Dynamic Wave Propagation
Bonded Block Model

Geometry Data Examples
Geometry Data
Command Filtering (Geometry Data as Part of a Range)
Geometry Group Assignment (Range)
Increasing Discretization (Densifying) with Geometry Data