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

Joint Flow: Pumping Test in a Single Horizontal Fracture

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