3DEC Examples

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Tutorials       Example Applications       Verification Problems

On 3DEC Examples Index

Dynamic Analysis	Fluid Verifications & Examples
Thermal Verifications & Examples	Creep Verifications & Examples
Structural Cable Examples	Factor of Safety Calculations
Structural Beam Examples	Joint Constitutive Model Tests
Structural Pile Examples	Geometry Data Examples
Structural Liner Examples	3DEC-FLAC3D Coupled Examples

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Examples listed on this page are of three types: Tutorials, Example Applications, and Verification Problems. Every 3DEC example available in this documentation is found in the comprehensive examples index.

Tutorials

• Tutorial: Quick Start

• See also: FISH Tutorial

Example Applications

• 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 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
• Supported Tunnel
• UCS Test with Fragmentation
• UCS Test with Voronoi Blocks
• Rockmass Integration
• Creep Response of a Bedded Salt Formation
• Reinforced Concrete Beam
• Uniaxial Compression and Extension Tests with Concrete Model
• Tunnel Excavation in a Bonded Block Model
• Lined Circular Tunnel in an Elastic Medium with Anisotropic Stresses
• 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

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
• Hydraulic Fracture
• Sliding and Toppling Blocks
• Pumping Test in a Single Horizontal Fracture

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.